Daniel H. Levine is a consultant to the Centre for Conflict Resolution (CCR), Cape Town, South Africa, and a Research Fellow at the Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland, USA.

Dawn Nagar is a Researcher at the Centre for Conflict Resolution (CCR), Cape Town, South Africa.

Most comprehensive scholarly examination of the subject to date. Examines regionbuilding and regionalintegration across all five African subregions and more than five decades of experience, covers all the major themes that will shape debates on the topic

Considers regional integration in both its political and economic aspects, arguing that regional integration is as much a political project as an economic one

Diverse international perspectives from African and nonAfrican contributors (both practitioners and academics). Contributors include Louise Fawcett, John Ravenhill, Daniel Bach, Rene Lemarchand, Piers Ludlow, S.K.B. Asante, Gilbert Khadiagala, and Scott Taylor

Comparative framework. Situates Africa within broader studies of regionalism and regional integration; draws lessons from the experiences of other regional blocks, including the EU, ASEAN, and the Southern Common Market

Introduction; Daniel Levine and Dawn Nagar
PART I: THEMES AND CONCEPTS OF REGION-BUILDING AND REGIONAL INTEGRATION IN AFRICA
1. Region-building Debates in a Global Context; Louise Fawcett \
2. Regional Integration in Africa: Theory and Practice; John Ravenhill
3. A Tale of Three Cassandras: Jean Monnet, Raúl Prebisch, and Adebayo Adedeji; Adekeye Adebajo
PART II: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF AFRICA'S REGION-BUILDING AND REGIONAL INTEGRATION INITIATIVES
4. Cross-border Interactions and Regionalism; Daniel Bach
5. Infrastructure and Regional Integration in Africa; Afeikhena Jerome and David Nabena
6. African Agency Post-2015: The Roles of Regional Powers and Developmental States in Regional Integration; Timothy M. Shaw
7. The Political Economy of Africa's Region-building and Regional Integration; Samuel K.B. Asante
PART III: THE AFRICAN UNION (AU) AND SUB-REGIONAL ORGANISATIONS AND INITIATIVES
8. The African Union and Region Integration in Africa; Kasaija Phillip Apuuli
9. Region-building in Southern Africa; Scott Taylor
10. Region-building in Eastern Africa; Gilbert M. Khadiagala
11. COMESA and SADC: The Era of Convergence; Dawn Nagar
12. Region-building in West Africa; Said Adejumobi
13. Region-building in Central Africa; René Lemarchand
14. Region-building in North Africa; Azzedine Layachi
PART IV: COMPARATIVE REGIONAL SCHEMES: LESSONS FOR AFRICA
15. Necessary but Not Automatic: How Europe Learned to Integrate; N. Piers Ludlow
16. Lessons from Asia: The Association of Southeast Asian Nations; Mely Caballero-Anthony
17. Lessons from Latin America: MERCOSUR; Laura Goméz-Mera
Conclusion; Daniel Levine