The strategy of regional integration in Africa

Abstract

One of the prominent features of the contemporary international system is the heightened tendency of some state units to gravitate towards some degree of regional integration, particularly regional cooperation and integration. This process towards economic integration, as distinct from political integration, has become such a worldwide phenomenon that the post-World War period has been to some extent described as an 'era of regional integration' or, as scholars like Haberler would have it, 'the age of integration'.