Explaining the Influence of Extra-Regional Actors on Regional Economic Integration in Southern Africa

Muntschick, Johannes

doi:10.4324/9781315593784-5

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“…However, the comprehensive analysis of the impact of external actors on regional integration is limited in scope and quality in the literature since there has been no successful example of exogenous (outside-in) regional integration yet. Nevertheless, some early works evaluated the role of external factors hypothetically while recent ones scrutinized the impact of regional dominant states and external powers on evolving regional integration processes based on the isolated case studies in America, Africa and Asia (Denha, 1969;Haas, 1970;Cochrane and Sloan, 1973;Mytelka, 1973;Muttli, 1999;Bilal, 2013;Plummer, 2017;Muntschick, 2013Muntschick, , 2018.…”

Section: Regional Integration Via Extra-regional Major Powersmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…On the one hand, the EU played as an "integration model", major external donor and main trade partner for Southern African Development Community (SADC), Southern African Customs Union (SACU), Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), UEMOA and other regional economic communities (REC) in Africa. On the other hand, because of African country's structural problems, the EU has had a deconstructive impact on these RECs, which may lead to their further fragmentation (Marinov, 2013;Muntschick, 2013).…”

Section: Regional Integration Via Extra-regional Major Powersmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Büyük Güçler Aracılığıyla Bölgesel Bütünleşme : Rusya'nın Avrasya Ekonomik Birliği, Çin'in İpek Yolu Ekonomik Kuşağı ve ABD'nin Yeni İpek Yolu Projesi

Omonkulov¹,

Baba²

2019

Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart Üniversitesi Uluslararası Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi

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Great and regional powers have been trying to influence/control Central Asia's (CA) political-economic fabric and development for the sake of their own strategic interests via different politico-economic schemes. Especially, Russia, China and the US are competing to inject their individual regional integration models for reducing the influence of other great and regional powers. These models fall in the category of extra-regional integration projects, which promote different structured approaches. This paper explores the viability and major impacts of great power-induced regional integration and their repercussions. It argues that these projects are developed by and biased towards preserving the influence of major powers, and lack viable framework to bring both global and regional players into a path of long-term cooperation. Even if the great powers' regional integration approaches are divergent from each other, their common point the asymmetry they apply when they are approaching the region. Primarily they prioritized their own strategic interests while discarding CA states' expectations to a significant extent. However, if implemented successfully, it cannot be ruled out that these projects may bring socioeconomic benefits to CA countries at the expense of political independence.

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