From the Lagos Plan of Action to the New Partnership for Africa's Development
Subtitle: the political economy of African regional initiatives
By: Francis Nguendi Ikome.
Publisher: Institute for Global Dialogue
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Midrand, South Africa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781919697956
Subjects: New Partnership for Africa's Development.; Lagos Plan of Action.; African cooperation.; Africa -- Economic policy.; Africa -- Economic integration.; Africa -- Foreign relations.
Description: This study brings an intellectual but also an exciting dimension to Africa's development discourse in general and NEPAD in particular. It is especially remarkable in analysing the origins of regionalist impulses in Africa. It shows profound contrasts between the state-led, internally formulated and African-financed Lagos Plan of Action (LPA) on the one hand and the market-led, Western-crafted, and externally funded NEPAD on the other. Moreover, it is distinctive in its comprehensive analysis of the failures of previous regional initiatives in Africa, thus bringing new insights to the political economy of regionalism in Africa. This book is analytical and critical, but also thought-provoking.
Notes: This is a reworked version of the author's doctoral thesis in international relations (University of the Witwatersrand, 2004).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-206).