TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wolff-Christian Peters
PY  - 2021
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - The Quest for an African Economic Community
T2  - Regional Integration and its Role in Achieving African Unity – The Case of SADC
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1135653
N2  - The African Union (AU) aims at creating an African Economic Community (AEC) by 2034. Eight recognized Regional Economic Communities (REC) are supposed to form the building blocs of the AEC. The book shows that the Southern African Development Community (SADC) is currently the most advanced and promising REC but still behind schedule in reaching its own integration objectives. If the currently most successful of the African RECs may not achieve sufficiently deep regional integration in time then the chances to establish the AEC by 2034 are slim indeed. Combining economic and political analysis the author examines SADC, its achievements and potential in detail. Special reference is given to the impact of the Zimbabwe crisis on regional integration.
KW  - Demokratische Konvergenz, Freihandelszone, Zollunion, Afrikanische Einheit
LA  - English
ER  -