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.

List 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

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.

Summary

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

• Authors: Dr Fredrik Soderbaum, F. Soderbaum, F Söderbaum, F. Söderbaum
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2004
• EAN: 9781349515103
• ISBN: 978-1-349-51510-3
• No. of pages: 271
• Series: International Political Economy Series; International Political Econom; International Political Economy Series
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; B, Economic Policy, Africa, International Relations, macroeconomics, Political Economy, Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics, Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics, Regionalism, African Politics, Monetary Economics, International Political Economy, Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection, Africa—Politics and government, International Political Economy’