Regionalism and Regions: East Africa Integration or Disintegration?. Africas' Regional Integration

      Аннотация: Does regionalism succeed in regions where there is turmoil and disorder? Neo Functionalists like Jean Monette, largely agree that chaotic areas with a tremendous deficit in democracy, can not integrate economically, politically and socially because freedoms and individual State non-interference are the foundations for the formation of a supranational body at the regional level. Their case study was largely the EU and therefore Euro-Centric. That where democracy and freedoms are found to be scarce, the 'Thesis' and prognosis is simply 'non-integration', in such a region. Do the current empirical studies support the same view? This is the question, the real elephant in the room!

Ключевые слова: Regionalism, Regional integration, disintegration, East Africa Community