Afro-Regions: The dynamics of cross-border micro-regionalism in Africa
本文考察非洲边境地区新区域主义的实际表现，聚焦公私网络，揭示发展走廊、移民、非法贸易和冲突背后的真实区域主义，挑战了乐观观点。
Regional integration stands out as one of the hardiest perennials of the African academic landscape. Despite persistent accounts of failure, African regionalism manages to reinvent itself every decade or so, triggering a new round of critique and denunciation. Disillusionment with the state-led regionalism of the 1960s and 1970s shifted attention during the 1980s to informal cross-border trade as a force for regional integration ‘from below’, represented in the work of Janet MacGaffey and francophone scholars John Igue and Johny Egg. As African informality lost its shine, Bjorn Hettne and others unveiled the ‘new regionalism’ in the late 1990s, a more liberalized and globalized integrationist agenda driven by non-state networks of international as well as local private sector and civil society actors. Now Afro-Regions: The dynamics of cross-border micro-regionalism in Africa examines the performance of the new regionalism ‘on the ground’ in Africa's border regions, and finds it wanting. Focusing on the public–private networks of African micro-regional spaces, the authors challenge the optimism of the new regionalism by turning attention to the ‘real regionalism’ of development corridors, migration flows, illicit trade networks, and regional conflicts.