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African regionalisms as flexible legal regimes

In: North-South Regional Trade Agreements as Legal Regimes

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Chapter 6 critically reflects on the emergence of African regional regimes. Providing an overview of African regionalism is important for the contextualisation of the analysis of the SADC EPA. Drawing insight from the work of James Gathii, this book asserts that African regionalisms represent ‘flexible’ legal regimes1 that pursue multifaceted policy objectives. As such, African regionalisms do not fit neatly into the straitjacket of Article XXIV legal regimes. Nevertheless, it will be argued that these regions are still regimes integrated through law and have offered a space in which ‘norms of solidarity’2 or expressions of collective political will have been contested, shaped, and reproduced. 1 J.T. Gathii, African Regional Trade Agreements as Legal Regimes (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011). 2 L. Dirar, ‘Norms of Solidarity and Regionalism: Theorising State Behaviour Among Southern African States’ (2016) 24 Michigan State International Law Review 667–723.

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  • ., 2017. "African regionalisms as flexible legal regimes," Chapters, in: North-South Regional Trade Agreements as Legal Regimes, chapter 6, pages 169-199, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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    2. Singh, Ripudaman & Kemausuor, Francis & Wooldridge, Margaret, 2018. "Locational analysis of cellulosic ethanol production and distribution infrastructure for the transportation sector in Ghana," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 98(C), pages 393-406.
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