Regionalism and integration in Africa : EU-ACP economic partnership agreements and Euro-Nigeria relations / Samuel O. Oloruntoba.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Oloruntoba, Samuel O. (Samuel Ojo), 1970- author.

Series:

African histories and modernities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Commercial policy.

International economic relations.

Nigeria--Foreign economic relations--European Union countries.

Nigeria.

European Union countries--Foreign economic relations--Nigera.

European Union countries.

Nigeria--Commercial policy.

Africa--Economic integration.

Africa.

Commercial treaties.

Physical Description:

xiv, 236 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Introduction.

chapter 2. Globalization and regional trade agreements. Regional trade agreement

Preferential trade agreements from inception to the World Trade Organization

The politics of global trading system and regional trade agreements

Regionalism

Regional trade agreements and regional integration.

chapter 3. Theoretical framework of North-South. Regional trade agreements

Neoclassical, and neoliberal political economy theories

Neo-Marxists, dependency, under development and world system

Conceptual framework.

chapter 4. History of Euro-Africa relations: from Yaoundé Convention to economic partnership agreements. Cotonou partnership agreements and economic partnership agreement

Eurozone crisis and implications for the funding of the economic partnership agreements

Global economic crisis and the European Union economy

Africa-European strategic partnership agreements

Development options for Africa in a period of crisis in relations to the European Union.

chapter 5. Economic partnership agreements and macro-economic development in Nigeria. Partnership or paternalism? EU-ACP economic partnership agreements

EU funding provisions for the EPAs.

chapter 6. Economic partnership agreements and the non-oil exports in Nigeria. Services

Fishery exports

Fishing policy

Law and regulations governing fishery products in Nigeria

Main challenges to fishery exports in Nigeria

The political economy of Nigeria fishery exports sub-sector

Fisheries in the context of international trade

Cotonou Agreement and provisions dealing with fishery agreement

Access agreements on fishery

Sanitary and phytosanitary measures

Rules of origin

Value chains and value addition

Markets

Export of fisheries in Nigeria

EPAs and agriculture: cocoa exports.

chapter 7. State capacity and trade policy in Nigeria. State capacity and trade policy: theoretical and conceptual clarifications

Trade policy

Constraints to trade policy formulation in Nigeria

Economic partnership agreements: what role for the state in Nigeria?

chapter 8. The political economy of regional integration and development in Africa: rethinking theory and praxis. Regional integration in Africa

Dominant theoretical models of regional integration in Africa

Market integration

Neoliberal economic theory

Dependency of development cooperation approach

New economic geography

Efforts towards regional integration

Regional integration: towards a new approach

Economic partnership agreements and regional integration in West Africa.

chapter 9. Political economy of regional integration and development in Africa: rethinking theory and praxis.

chapter 10. Regionalism or multilateralism: building national competitiveness for economic development in Nigeria.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137568656

1137568658

OCLC:

933517062