Integrating Africa : decolonization's legacies, sovereignty and the African Union /
"The African Union (AU), a continental organization that comprises every African state except Morocco, is a pioneering undertaking. Its ambitious aim is to integrate all member states, with the ultimate goal of forming the United States of Africa. Despite several attempts to build a union, the...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York :
Routledge,
2013.
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Colección: | Global institutions series ;
68. |
Temas: | |
Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | "The African Union (AU), a continental organization that comprises every African state except Morocco, is a pioneering undertaking. Its ambitious aim is to integrate all member states, with the ultimate goal of forming the United States of Africa. Despite several attempts to build a union, the AU has remained an intergovernmental organization, with one reason being a perceived unwillingness of the AU states to pool their national sovereignties. This study seeks to comprehend why Africa's integration process has not moved toward a supranational organization, using a novel approach. It shifts the usual perspective away from the organization level and provides the first comprehensive and systematic analysis of the AU from the perspective of the states themselves"--Page 4 of cover |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 243 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9781136235191 1136235191 9781283643733 1283643731 |