The Political Economy of Regionalism: The Case of Southern Africa
The Political Economy of Regionalism: The Case of Southern Africa challenges prevailing wisdom, showing how ruling political elites and 'big business' join forces with certain external actors in order to promote market integration and economic globalization, boost regimes, and to satisfy group-specific and even personal interests. Only rarely do these forms of regionalism contribute to the poor and disadvantaged, who instead opt out, and survive through informal economic regionalisms or seek to create regionalisms rooted in civil society.
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The Political Economy of Regionalism: The Case of Southern Africa
The Political Economy of Regionalism: The Case of Southern Africa challenges prevailing wisdom, showing how ruling political elites and 'big business' join forces with certain external actors in order to promote market integration and economic globalization, boost regimes, and to satisfy group-specific and even personal interests. Only rarely do these forms of regionalism contribute to the poor and disadvantaged, who instead opt out, and survive through informal economic regionalisms or seek to create regionalisms rooted in civil society.
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The Political Economy of Regionalism: The Case of Southern Africa

The Political Economy of Regionalism: The Case of Southern Africa

by F. Söderbaum
The Political Economy of Regionalism: The Case of Southern Africa

The Political Economy of Regionalism: The Case of Southern Africa

by F. Söderbaum

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The Political Economy of Regionalism: The Case of Southern Africa challenges prevailing wisdom, showing how ruling political elites and 'big business' join forces with certain external actors in order to promote market integration and economic globalization, boost regimes, and to satisfy group-specific and even personal interests. Only rarely do these forms of regionalism contribute to the poor and disadvantaged, who instead opt out, and survive through informal economic regionalisms or seek to create regionalisms rooted in civil society.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781349515103
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date: 01/01/2004
Series: International Political Economy Series
Edition description: Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2004
Pages: 251
Product dimensions: 5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

FREDRIK SÖDERBAUM is at the Department of Peace and Development Research, Göteborg University (Padrigu), and the United Nations University/Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU/CRIS). Recent books include Regionalization in a Globalizing World, Theories of New Regionalism, The New Regionalism of Africa, Regionalism and Uneven Development in Southern Africa: The Case of the Maputo Development Corridor.

Table of Contents

Introduction Reviewing The Theoretical Landscape Theorizing the New Regionalism Approach The Historical Construction of 'Southern Africa' The Political Economy of Formal and Informal Regionalism Civil Society Regionalism The Political Economy of Shared River Basins: The Case of the Zambezi The Political Economy of Micro-regionalism: The Case of the Maputo Development Corridor Conclusion
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