Regionalism and integration in Africa : EU-ACP economic partnership agreements and Euro-Nigeria relations

xiv, 236 Seiten

Diagramme

Includes bibliographical references and index

chapter 1.Introduction.chapter 2.Globalization and regional trade agreements.Regional trade agreementPreferential trade agreements from inception to the World Trade OrganizationThe politics of global trading system and regional trade agreementsRegionalismRegional trade agreements and regional integration.chapter 3.Theoretical framework of North-South.Regional trade agreementsNeoclassical, and neoliberal political economy theoriesNeo-Marxists, dependency, under development and world systemConceptual framework.chapter 4.History of Euro-Africa relations: from Yaoundé Convention to economic partnership agreements.Cotonou partnership agreements and economic partnership agreementEurozone crisis and implications for the funding of the economic partnership agreementsGlobal economic crisis and the European Union economyAfrica-European strategic partnership agreementsDevelopment options for Africa in a period of crisis in relations to the European Union.chapter 5.Economic partnership agreements and macro-economic development in Nigeria.Partnership or paternalism? EU-ACP economic partnership agreementsEU funding provisions for the EPAs.chapter 6.Economic partnership agreements and the non-oil exports in Nigeria.ServicesFishery exportsFishing policyLaw and regulations governing fishery products in NigeriaMain challenges to fishery exports in NigeriaThe political economy of Nigeria fishery exports sub-sectorFisheries in the context of international tradeCotonou Agreement and provisions dealing with fishery agreementAccess agreements on fisherySanitary and phytosanitary measuresRules of originValue chains and value additionMarketsExport of fisheries in NigeriaEPAs and agriculture: cocoa exports.chapter 7.State capacity and trade policy in Nigeria.State capacity and trade policy: theoretical and conceptual clarificationsTrade policyConstraints to trade policy formulation in NigeriaEconomic partnership agreements: what role for the state in Nigeria?chapter 8.The political economy of regional integration and development in Africa: rethinking theory and praxis.Regional integration in AfricaDominant theoretical models of regional integration in AfricaMarket integrationNeoliberal economic theoryDependency of development cooperation approachNew economic geographyEfforts towards regional integrationRegional integration: towards a new approachEconomic partnership agreements and regional integration in West Africa.chapter 9.Political economy of regional integration and development in Africa: rethinking theory and praxis.chapter 10.Regionalism or multilateralism: building national competitiveness for economic development in Nigeria.

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