Politics and Pan-Africanism

Dawn Nagar is Senior Researcher at the Centre for Conflict Resolution at Cape Town. She is co-editor of Region-Building in Africa: Political and Economic Challenges with Daniel H. Levine (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) and Region-Building in Southern Africa: Progress, Problems and Prospects with Chris Saunders and Gwinyayi A. Dzinesa (Zed Books, 2012) and has been published in peer reviewed journals.

A timely and relevant book given the trade, economic and security trends currently re-framing the African continent.

• DedicationAcknowledgementsList of Abbreviations and AcronymsChapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: A Rationale For Pan-African Economic Integration Theory AndPan-African Security Convergence TheorySituating Pan-Africanism Within The Divergence AndConvergence Debates Of Regional IntegrationThe Third-Wave of Pan-Africanism From Modernity to DependencyNeoclassical Economics: Divergence And ConvergenceMarket-Driven Trade Liberalisation And Economic GrowthPan-Africanism: Free Trade Agreements And Intra-Regional Trade:Divergence And ConvergenceMacroeconomic Policies – Divergence And ConvergenceMultiple Memberships: Divergence And ConvergenceNeoclassical Realism Approach: SecurityAssumptions of the New Theories And Definitions:Pan-African Economic Integration TheoryNew Theories And Definitions:Pan-African Security ConvergenceChapter 3: Pan-Africanism's Burial And Reincarnation:EAC, SADC and COMESAPan-Africanism ReincarnateThe Front Line States And The Making Of An AlliancePolitical And Economic Courtship - Policy Of DétenteThe FLS And External ActorsThe Formation Of SADCC: A European AgendaChapter 4:The Era of Convergence:COMESA, EAC and SADCThe Period 1998–2008 Towards a Tripartite AgreementA Business Critique:States, Markets, Developmental Integration: 1998–2008Information and Technology Systems Control:Achieving Value-AdditionDiplomatic Efforts Of The Main Summits And Meetings:The Period 1998–2008Diplomatic Efforts:A Move Towards A Grand FTAProgress of the Tripartite MOUMerger Of One REC And Progress Of The RoadmapEfforts Towards The Establishment Of A Grand Free Trade AreaRegional Transport Master PlanConclusionChapter 5:Multiple Memberships: COMESA, EAC and SADCManagement of multiple membershipsChapter 6:Security CooperationRegional Security Complex Framework:Evolving domestic actors and factorsChapter 7:Conceptualisation Of Chapters And Key FindingsKey policy recommendationsRules of origin (ROO)Total Factor Productivity (TFP)Final wordNotesIndex