This book discusses the interaction between and the impact of overlapping actions by regional organizations while dealing with critical events. It compares all the sub-regions in South America and Africa from this perspective and creates new knowledge through cross-regional gleanings. The book analyses types of institutional interaction among regional organizations and the effects of overlapping actions on the coexistence or fracturing of regional processes. It examines and compares the dynamics of these interactions in both South America and Africa. The book contributes to the study of comparative regionalism by providing generalization and institutional learning based on a cross-regional approach. It gives to students, researchers and interested readers an understanding of the complexity of regional affairs in multi-organizational environments.
Author(s): Clarissa Correa Neto Ribeiro
Series: United Nations University Series on Regionalism, 22
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 166
City: Cham
Acknowledgements
Contents
Acronyms
List of Figures
List of Tables
Chapter 1: Introduction
1.1 Research Question and Central Argument
1.2 Theoretical and Methodological Framework
1.3 Case Selection and Research Scope
1.4 Research Procedures
1.5 Summing Up: Contributions of the Cross-Regional Organizational Behaviour Analysis
Chapter 2: Regionalism in the Global South: Institutional Mapping of the Scenarios of Overlapping
2.1 Overlapping Regional Organizations and Regional Interplays
2.1.1 Configuration Types of Overlap
2.1.2 Potential Outcomes´ Scenarios: Why Overlaps Matter
2.2 Drivers
2.3 Latin America: Scenarios of Overlapping, South American Studies
2.3.1 Closed Regionalism
2.3.2 Open Regionalism
2.3.3 Post-Hegemonic Regionalism
2.4 Africa
2.4.1 Colonial Arrangements
2.4.2 Pan-Africanism Versus Postcolonial Sub-regionalism
2.4.3 The Not-So-New ``New Regionalism´´
2.4.4 African Union Era
2.5 Analysis and Mapping of Organizations: Partial Considerations
Chapter 3: Overlapping Organizations and Political Crises in Africa
3.1 The African Union and Unconstitutional Changes of Government
3.1.1 Normative Provisions on UCGs
3.1.2 Provisions on the Relationship Between the AU and Sub-regional Groupings
3.2 Regional and Sub-regional Responses to UCGs
3.2.1 East Africa
3.2.1.1 The Burundian Crisis, 2015: UCG or Not UCG?
3.2.2 West Africa
3.2.2.1 Mali 2012: ECOWAS, CEN-SAD, African Union
3.2.2.2 Results
3.2.2.3 The Gambia, 2017: ECOWAS, African Union
3.2.3 Southern Africa
3.2.3.1 Madagascar, 2009: SADC, COMESA, AU
3.2.3.2 Results
3.2.4 Central Africa
3.2.4.1 Central African Republic, 2013: ECCAS, CEN-SAD, AU
3.2.5 Northern Africa
3.3 Partial Analysis
Chapter 4: Overlapping Organizations and Political Crises in South America
4.1 Development of the Normative Provisions on Democracy in the American Continent
4.2 Sub-regional Provisions, Responses, and Case Analysis
4.2.1 The Andean Sub-region
4.2.1.1 Ecuador 2010: ALBA, CAN, UNASUR, OAS
4.2.2 The Southern Cone
4.2.2.1 Paraguay 2012: MERCOSUR, UNASUR, CELAC, OAS
4.2.2.2 Venezuela 2013-Onwards: ALBA, MERCOSUR, UNASUR, OAS
4.3 Partial Analysis
Chapter 5: Analysis and Conclusion: Comparative Regionalism, Political Crises, De Facto Overlapping, and Regional Cohesion
5.1 Regionalism and Political Crises: Challenges to Shared Democracy Protection
5.2 Regional Behaviours on Overlapping Situations
5.2.1 Analysis of Dyadic Relationships
5.3 De facto Overlapping: Regional Organizations in Action
Chapter 6: Final Considerations
6.1 Potential Causalities of Overlapping ROs´ Behaviour Choice on African and South American Political Crises
6.2 Summing Up the Observed Effects of Overlapping Actions on Political Crises for Regional Cohesion: Complementarity or Fragm...
Appendix A
Appendix B
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