North-South Regional Trade Agreements as Legal Regimes
A Critical Assessment of the EU-SADC Economic Partnership Agreement
Clair Gammage
Chapter 7: Regionalism in Southern Africa
A Critical Assessment of the EU-SADC Economic Partnership Agreement
Clair Gammage
Extract
Chapter 7 explores the dynamism of regionalism in Southern Africa, through the shifts from the colonial to post-colonial and Apartheid to democratisation. With a focus on the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) and the Southern African Development Community (SADC), it will be shown that these regional arrangements have been historically constituted as a part of the region’s development strategy. However, the dominant position of South Africa has enabled it to integrate SACU through hegemonic legal ideology which has had a long-lasting impact on the region. The Southern African region will now be exposed to another hegemonic force through the EPA as it formalises its trade relationship with normative power Europe.
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