The regulatory capacity review of the East African Community (EAC) focuses on the capacities of the EAC institutional framework to develop, implement, and sustain the efficient, transparent, and market-based regulatory system that is needed to achieve the economic benefits of the EAC common market. This report argues that the EAC institutions will be successful in implementing the common market only if they safeguard the quality of regulatory practices. This is a highly pragmatic and operational agenda. Quality principles can be applied only if they are defined and institutionalized into the machinery of policy making. The idea is that, just as fiscal management can increase social welfare by better allocating resources, so can regulatory governance.
Chapter One. Introduction -- The puzzle -- Argument -- Situating the book -- Why this book? -- Approach of the book -- Chapter Two. The missing link -- Inadequacy of existing explanations -- Regionalism and the EAC -- From regionalism to regional security cooperation -- Regionalism and security cooperation in the EAC -- Understanding non-cooperation on armed rebellions in the eac -- Unexplained issues: the analytic value of sovereignty -- Chapter Three. Sovereignty concerns, sovereignty bargains, and security cooperation -- State sovereignty: the basis of sovereignty concerns -- Sovereignty bargains -- International/regional security cooperation -- Chapter Four. Different security issues, different sovereignty concerns -- Sovereignty concerns and their variations -- Discerning levels of SCs that different security issues evoke -- From sovereignty concerns to sovereignty bargaining -- Chapter Five. Normal bargaining and security cooperation in the EAC -- The EAC security cooperation framework -- From normal bargains to security cooperation instruments -- Security cooperation: terrorism and SALWs -- Precis of findings -- Chapter Six. Non-bargain I: judicial opposition and non-cooperation on armed rebellions -- Rebellions as critical-sovereignty issues in the EAC -- Non-bargaining strategies and non-cooperation on rebellions -- Chapter Seven. Non-bargaining II: purposeful silence on Uganda's LRA rebellion -- The EALA's frustrations -- Precis of non-bargaining and non-cooperation -- Chapter Eight. Concluding observations -- Precis of findings -- Implications of this book and its contribution -- Applicability beyond the EAC -- Recommendations -- Appendix I. Major historical events and processes in East African regionalism -- Appendix II: Armed rebellions affecting EAC states since 1993
