Regional Integration and Regional Security. Challenges in the ECCAS.

      Аннотация: The book explains the dynamics of security challenges in the Central African sub-region. The ten member-states of ECCAS in theory possess billions of dollars in natural resources but a contradiction characterized the sub-region as it's one of the poorest in the world amid bad governance, persistent coup d'etats and above all growing insecurity which had plunged the sub-region into chaos. Due to this security challenges, the agendas of the Regional economic cooperation of the Central African block referred to as ECCAS has shifted from economic matters (area of low politics) to security issues (area of high politics).

Ключевые слова: regional security, Regional integration, conflict in Central Africa sub-region, Challenges in the ECCAS, regional integration theory