Africa-EU Relations and the African Continental Free Trade Area (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Oloruntoba, Samuel Ojo; Tshimpaka, Leon Mwamba; Nshimbi, Christopher Changwe

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores Africa-EU relations within the African Continental Free Trade Area, both at regional levels and as a series of processes of socioeconomic and political interactions between various actors. The book will interest academics who specialise in International Relations, African Studies, Political Economy and Sociology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. August 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000921755
• Artikelnr.: 68206879

Autorenporträt

Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba is an adjunct research professor at the Institute of African Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada and honorary professor at the Thabo Mbeki School of Public and International Affairs, University of South Africa. He earned a PhD in Political Science from the University of Lagos, Nigeria. He was previously a visiting scholar at the Program of African Studies, Northwestern University, Evanston and fellow of Brown International Advanced Research Institute, Brown University, Rhode Island, United States of America. Oloruntoba is the author, editor and co-editor of several books including Regionalism and Integration in Africa: EU-ACP Economic Partnership Agreements and Euro-Nigeria Relations, Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2016 and co-editor with Toyin Falola of the Palgrave Handbook of Africa and the Changing Global Order, 2022, among others. His research interests are in Regional Integration, Migration, Democracy and Development, Global Governance of Trade and Finance, Politics of Natural Resources Governance and EU-African Relations. He is also a member of the African Knowledge Network, Office of Special Adviser on Africa UN Under Secretary-General, United Nations, New York. Christopher Changwe Nshimbi is SARChI (South African Research Chairs Initiative) Research Chair in the Political Economy of Migration in the SADC Region, Director of the Centre for the Study of Governance Innovation (GovInn) and associate professor in the Department of Political Sciences at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. His research focuses on migration, borders, regional integration, the informal economy and water governance. He sits in on regional and international technical working groups on trade, labour, migration and water governance. He is also a member of the Platform for African European Studies (PAES) ORCID: 0000-0001-6245-4233 Leon Mwamba Tshimpaka is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Institute for Strategic and Political Affairs and the SARChI Research Chair in the Political Economy of Migration in the SADC Region in the Department of Political Sciences of the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He is also an adjunct professor in the School of Liberal Arts and Humanities at Woxsen University, India and a visiting scholar at Ku Leuven, Belgium and Luxembourg University, Luxembourg. Dr. Tshimpaka's research includes Regional Integration in SADC and BRICS, EU-Africa Relations, Migration, Political Transnationalism of African migrants, Civil Society and Consolidation of Democracy in Africa, Anti-corruption Initiatives and Sustainable Development in Africa. He earned a PhD in Political Science from the University of Pretoria, South Africa and an MA in Development Studies from the University of South Africa, South Africa. Dr. Tshimpaka is a co-author of Regional Economic Communities and Integration in Southern Africa: Networks of Civil Society Organizations and Alternative Regionalism , published by Springer Nature in 2021, as well as the author of book chapters and journal articles. He is also an expert on European Studies and a member of the Platform for African European Studies (PAES). (0000-0001-7097-3244)

Inhaltsangabe

1: Africa-EU relations in the context of the African Continental Free Trade
Area: Issues and challenges in the political economy of development in
Africa 2: Intergovernmentalism, supranationalism and inter-regional
relations: Africa-EU relations in view of the AfCFTA 3: External Bilateral
Agreements and the African Continental Free Trade Agreement: Contending
Narratives on the EU-ACP Economic Partnership Agreements 4: Africa's
emulation of Europe's Neo-functionalist institutions of integration and the
implications for the African Continental Free Trade Areas 5: Africa-EU
Economic Partnership Agreements: Whither the African Continental Free Trade
Area? 6: AU-EU relations in the context of African Continental Free Trade
Area's political economy and development in Africa 7: African Conflicts,
AU-EU Strategic Partnership on Peace and Security and the Implementation of
African Continental Free Trade Agreement 8: On the African Continental Free
Trade Area, migration and the Africa-European Union relations 9: Rethinking
migration narratives through Africa-EU relations from below: Migration
Evangelism of public transport users in Europe by France-based African
migrants 10: Of 'pieces of cake' and 'elephants in the room': Migration in
Africa's continental integration project 11: Africa-EU relations and the
AfCFTA: Historical entanglement into the future