Emergent Africa: Evolution of Regional Economic Integration

by Francis Mangeni, Calestous Juma

Overview

Africa made world history on 21 March 2018 when it adopted the Agreement establishing its Continental Free Trade Area. This followed closely on another major Agreement adopted on 10 June 2015 establishing the Tripartite Free Trade Area covering half of Africa. This book explains these diplomatic feats. Using Ilya Prigogine's insights into how order emerges out of chaos and how the future provides vast opportunities for institutional engineering, the book traces the history of economic integration in Africa using a systems approach, showing how lessons from the experimentation at the regional levels have now been consolidated at the continental level through the mega agreements.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940161568378
Publisher:	Headline Books, Inc
Publication date:	09/23/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	552 KB

About the Author

Francis Mangeni is Director of Trade, Customs, and Monetary Affairs at the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa. He previously worked with the African Union as Senior Economist and did various consultancies on economic integration and the multilateral trade system for UN agencies and regional economic communities. Mangeni holds a Doctorate in International Economic Law from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Calestous Juma (1953-2017) was Professor of the Practice of International Development and Director of the Science, Technology, and Globalization Project at Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. He was Founding Director of the African Centre for Technology Studies in Nairobi, Fellow of the Royal Society of London, and Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences. His recent books include The New Harvest: Agricultural Innovation in Africa (2011) and Innovation and its Enemies: Why People Resist New Technologies (2016); more at CalestousJuma.com.