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This book addresses a major gap in the longstanding research on regional organisations: how do their finances work and what do they reveal about the region-building process? It brings together an empirically rich collection of chapters written by experts of regional organisations in Latin America, Africa and Asia.
Based on the insights on thirteen regional organisations as well as two chapters dedicated to the influence of external funders, the editors develop typologies to cluster regional organisations according to their financial characteristics: the size of budgets, the sources of funding and the criteria to calculate contributions. Through analysing the process of budgeting and resourcing, the book sheds light on the different nature and functioning of these organisations existing outside of the Global North and puts a specific emphasis on regional organisations in the area of security in Africa and the Global South. It provides explanations to why members pay or do not pay and how budgeting works, and it deals with data availability, the role of donors, overlapping regionalism, cultural transfers between regional organisations and the impact on regional actorness.
This volume will be of key interest to scholars and students of African studies and politics, the Global South, the finances of international organisations, comparative regionalism, international political economy and international relations.
Sommario
Foreword 1. The Finances of Regional Organisations in the South: Challenges of studying a neglected facet of regionalism Part I: Africa 2. The Finances of the African Union (AU) 3. The Finances of the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries (CPLP) 4. The Finances of the East African Community (EAC) 5. The Finances of the International Conference on Great Lakes Region (ICGLC) 6. The Finances of the Intergovernmental Authority for Development (IGAD) 7. The Finances of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) 8. Mapping and Problematising External Funding to the African Union and the Regional Economic Communities 9. Modernising the Partnership between Donors and Regional Organisations in Africa: The case of the African Union Commission Part II: The Arab World, Latin America and Asia 10. The Finances of the League of Arab States (LAS) 11. The Finances of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) 12. The Finances of the Common Market of the South (MERCOSUR) 13. The Finances of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) 14. The Finances of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) 15. The Finances of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) 16. The Finances of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) 17. Towards a New Typology of Regionalism: A comparative approach to the finances of regional organisations
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Ulf Engel is a professor at the Institute of African Studies, University of Leipzig, Germany. He is also visiting professor at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, and a professor extraordinary at Stellenbosch University, South Africa.
Frank Mattheis is a researcher at the Institut d’études européennes (IEE), Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, and an associate researcher at the Centre for the Study of Governance Innovation, University of Pretoria, South Africa.
Riassunto
This book addresses a major gap in the longstanding research on regional organisations: how do their finances work and what do they reveal about the region-building process? It brings together an empirically rich collection of chapters written by experts of regional organisations in Latin America, Africa and Asia.
