A missed opportunity for regionalism: the disparate behaviour of African countries in the EPA-negotiations with the EU

Krapohl, Sebastian; Huut, S. Van

doi:10.1080/07036337.2019.1666117

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“…Besides institu tional restructuring, member states agreed on a ten year agenda for integration in 2003, the Regional Indicative Strategic Development Plan (RISDP), which inter alia outlines the process of creating an EU style common market and a common currency. Intensified efforts at regional economic integration, as well as ne go ti ations with the EU over so called Economic Partnership Agreements, have once again brought to the fore the problem of overlapping membership in regional integration (Engel and Asche 2008; Krapohl and Van Huut 2020;Stevens 2006). Attempts are under way to rationalize existing economic agreements, partly under the umbrella of the African Union.…”

Section: Dispute Settlement In Sadcmentioning

confidence: 99%

Interorganizational Diffusion in International Relations

Lenz

2021

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How and under what conditions does the European Union (EU) shape processes of institution building in other regional organizations? This book develops and tests a theory of interorganizational diffusion in international relations that explains how successful pioneer organizations shape institutional choices in other organizations by affecting the institutional preferences and bargaining strategies of national governments. The author argues that Europe’s foremost regional organization systematically affects institution building abroad, but that such influence varies across different types of organization. Mixing quantitative and qualitative methods, it shows how the EU institutionally strengthens regional organizations through active engagement and by building its own institutions at home. Yet the contractual nature of other regional organizations bounds this causal influence: EU influence makes an identifiable difference primarily in those organizations that, like the EU itself, rest on an open-ended contract. Evidence for these claims is drawn from the statistical analysis of a dataset on the institutionalization of 35 regional organizations in the period from 1950 to 2017, as well as from detailed single and comparative case studies on institutional creation and (non-)change in the Southern African Development Community, Mercosur, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, and the North American Free Trade Agreement.

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Section: Dispute Settlement In Sadcmentioning

confidence: 99%

Interorganizational Diffusion in International Relations

Lenz

2021

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“…The multiple RIA schemes in the Southern African region include the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) and the Southern African Development Community (SADC). The SACU, which is a more integrated customs union, exists within the SADC region and it comprises South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, and Eswatini, which are often referred to as the BLNS countries (Krapohl and Huut, 2020). The objectives of SACU are spelt out in Article 2 of the treaty establishing the union.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…One such agreement is the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the European Union (EU) which was established upon the principle of reciprocal trade liberalization, where both parties, that is the EU and the African countries, were required to keep their domestic markets open for imports (Krapohl and Huut, 2020). EPAs are mutual trade agreements between the EU and some regional groupings in the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries with a primary objective of committing to trade liberalization.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The EU-SACU economic partnership agreement: Resultant trends and patterns in SADC intraregional agricultural trade flows

Mutanga,

Tagwi,

Chipfupa

2023

J. Agribus. Rural Dev.

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The study analyses the effects of the EU-SACU Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) on intra-regional agricultural trade in the SADC region. Trade data for the SADC region from 1996 to 2020 was utilized. The study used a "before and after" analytical approach, where first, after establishing that intra-regional trade in the region was relatively higher before the EPA compared to the period after the EPA was signed, a gravity model was estimated to identify the determinants of SADC imports from the EU before and after the EPA. The regression showed that GDP and population had positive and significant effects on bilateral trade, while distance and tariffs had negative but not highly significant effects. In conclusion, the results indicated that the EPA was trade-creating, with the SADC having more imports after entering the agreement with the EU.

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“…At the heart of the current relationship are debates about how best to marry trade and economic ties to pro-poor outcomes conducive to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In this context, there is deep scepticism among African states about whether the EU's free trade deals -Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs)due to come onstream in Africa's regional economic communities (RECs)are conducive to poverty alleviation (see for instance Krapohl & Van Huut, 2020). African trade justice campaigners express particular fears about the prospects of EU dumping of cheap agricultural produce such as frozen poultry under EPAs, and its consequences for livelihoods in poorer rural communities (FairPlay, 2017;Karodia, 2017).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%