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Accepted Paper:
The EU as a model for African regionalism: decolonizing regional integration in Africa?
Armin Cuyvers (Leiden Law School)
Paper long abstract:
The EU is the most dominant model used to design and support regional integration in Africa. As such, the entire EU model can be considered as part of the knowledge infrastructure in Africa: not only does the EU provide the epistemic starting point for thinking about regional integration, it also contributes, financially and with expertise, to the process or regional integration. This paper critically reflects on this linkage, and asks which kind of knowledge infrastructure is needed in Africa to make regional, or pan-African, integration work better. As one mechanism to do so, it asks what the EU might learn from African experiences, and where Africa may leap-frog in the field of regional integration as well.
The European Union and Africa’s knowledge infrastructure [initiated by ECDPM-Maastricht, with support from ISCTE-IULisbon]
Session 1