Suchergebnisse

1. Einleitung -- 2. Theoretischer Ansatz: Das Situations-Strukturmodell als analytisches Instrument zur Erklärung des Regionalismus -- 3. Die Entwicklungsgemeinschaft des Südlichen Afrika (SADC): Ein analytischer Überblick über ihre Geschichte, ihre Politik und ihren institutionellen Rahmen -- 4. Das Handelsprotokoll und die Schaffung der SADC-Freihandelszone -- 5. Exogene Einmischung: Die Wirtschaftspartnerschaftsabkommen der Europäischen Union und die ins Stocken geratene SADC-Zollunion -- 6. Regionale Sicherheitskooperation und das Organ für Politik, Verteidigung und Sicherheit der SADC (OPDS): Ein Bild der gemischten Leistung -- 7. Die SADC-Bereitschaftstruppe und ihr regionales Ausbildungszentrum für Friedenssicherung: Ungewisse Einsatzbereitschaft und Zukunft einer von außen finanzierten Brigade -- 8. Der Southern African Power Pool: Ein Elektrifizierungsprojekt mit ungenutztem Potential -- 9. Schlussfolgerung.

This volume offers systematic research on regionalism in Africa and explores the role and impact of external partners on the dynamics, institutional design, and performance of regional integration projects. It acknowledges and elaborates the multilevel and multidimensional nature of regionalism, with its variety of cooperative institutions and policy areas, while closely considering uneven relationships to external actors in African regional organizations. The book's two comprehensive mapping studies examine patterns of asymmetric inter-dependence between regionalism in Africa and external partners in Europe, with a focus on trade and donor funding, and highlight structural imbalances and (un)intended consequences. Five additional case studies provide in-depth analyses of a variety of African regional organizations, mainly with a focus on security regionalism, and elaborate how external partners influence and affect integration processes and projects. Although regionalism in Africa benefitted from external relations and partnerships with Europe, contributions in this volume question this positive impression, highlighting some of the major undermining factors and actors. Johannes Muntschick is a researcher and lecturer in the Department of Political Science at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany. His research and teaching experience lies in the fields of international relations theory, international institutions, and regionalism in the Global South.

This volume offers systematic research on regionalism in Africa and explores the role and impact of external partners on the dynamics, institutional design, and performance of regional integration projects. It acknowledges and elaborates the multilevel and multidimensional nature of regionalism, with its variety of cooperative institutions and policy areas, while closely considering uneven relationships to external actors in African regional organizations. The books two comprehensive mapping studies examine patterns of asymmetric inter-dependence between regionalism in Africa and external partners in Europe, with a focus on trade and donor funding, and highlight structural imbalances and (un)intended consequences. Five additional case studies provide in-depth analyses of a variety of African regional organizations, mainly with a focus on security regionalism, and elaborate how external partners influence and affect integration processes and projects. Although regionalism in Africa benefitted from external relations and partnerships with Europe, contributions in this volume question this positive impression, highlighting some of the major undermining factors and actors. Johannes Muntschick is a researcher and lecturer in the Department of Political Science at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat Mainz, Germany. His research and teaching experience lies in the fields of international relations theory, international institutions, and regionalism in the Global South.

This book explores regionalism in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and highlights the influence of the European Union (EU) as an extra-regional actor on the organization and integration process. The analysis is guided by theory and explains the emergence, institutional design and performance of SADC's major integration projects in the issue areas of the economy, security and infrastructure. It provides in this way a profound assessment of the organization as a whole. The study shows that South Africa plays a regional key role as driver for integration while external influence of the EU is ambivalent in character because it unfolds a supportive or obstructive impact. The author argues that the EU gains influence over regional integration processes in the SADC on the basis of patterns of asymmetric interdependence and becomes a 'game-changer' insofar as it facilitates or impedes solutions to regional cooperation problems.

This article addresses the questions, why the rather successful process of regional. - market integration in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) is stalling at. - present and why the existence of the centennial Southern African Customs Union (SACU). - is likewise at risk although the economic and political circumstances within the region. - have not changed much in recent times. Applying a situation-structural approach to the. - analysis of regional integration that takes the influence of external actors explicitly into. - account, the article demonstrates that the European Union has an unexpectedly interfering. - effect on regionalism in the South because its Economic Partnership Agreements can be. - made co-responsible for the failure of SADC's scheduled customs union project and an. - undermining of the SACU. (Politische Vierteljahresschrift/ FUB)

"Seit dem Ende des Kalten Kriegs hat die Anzahl innerstaatlicher Konflikte signifikant zugenommen. Es erscheint rätselhaft, warum Bürgerkriege gerade in wenig entwickelten Ländern in den Peripherieregionen häufig sehr langanhaltend sind, obwohl es dort vermeintlich an notwendigem Geld und Ausrüstung mangeln sollte. Im Artikel wird argumentiert, dass vor dem Hintergrund fragiler Staatlichkeit und Ressourcenreichtum an erster Stelle das System einer offenen Kriegsökonomie für die Dauer derartiger Bürgerkriege verantwortlich gemacht werden kann, da es Gewaltakteuren Zugang zu finanziellen Mitteln bietet und ihnen so (militärische) Handlungsfreiheit verschafft. Diese Annahme wird anhand von zwei empirischen Fallstudien - der Bürgerkrieg in der Demokratischen Republik Kongo (1996-2003) und in Liberia (1989-2003) - detailliert analysiert und erhärtet." (Autorenreferat)

Since the end of the Cold War the number of intrastate armed conflicts has significantly increased. It is puzzling why these civil wars are often particularly persistent in less developed countries although one would assume an alleged lack of financial means & equipment in those peripheral regions. The paper argues that the systems of open war-economies are responsible for the persistence of these conflicts at the first place, while conditions of fragile statehood & natural resource reserves facilitate their emergence. War-economies fuel a civil war significantly since they enable violent actors to accumulate financial means & hence provide them with freedom of (military) action. These assumptions are illustrated & corroborated by a detailed analysis of two empirical case studies: The war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (1996-2003) & in Liberia (1989-2003). Adapted from the source document.