1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990001449310403321

Autore

Essen, Arno Van den

Titolo

Polynomial automorphisms and the Jacobian Conjecture / Arno van den Essen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basel : Birkhauser, c2000

ISBN

3-7643-6352-9

Descrizione fisica

vii, 329 p. ; 25 cm

Collana

Progress in mathematics ; 190

Disciplina

513.3

Locazione

MA1

Collocazione

C-30-(190

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910300494503321

Autore

Muntschick Johannes <1921-2007, >

Titolo

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) and the European Union (EU) : Regionalism and External Influence / / by Johannes Muntschick

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018

ISBN

9783319453309

3319453300

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XVII, 372 p. 18 illus., 5 illus. in color.)

Disciplina

320.54

Soggetti

Regionalism

Africa - Politics and government

Europe - Politics and government

Peace

Economic development

African Politics

European Politics

Peace and Conflict Studies

Development Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical Approach: The Situation Structural Model as an Analytical Tool to explain Regionalism -- 3. The Southern African Development Community (SADC): An analytical Overview of its History, Policies and Institutional Framework -- 4. The Protocol on Trade and the Creation of the SADC Free Trade Area -- 5. Exogenous Interference: The European Union's Economic Partnership Agreements and the stalled SADC Customs Union -- 6. Regional Security Cooperation and SADC's Organ for Politics, Defence and Security (OPDS): A Picture of mixed Performance -- 7. The SADC Standby Force and its Regional Peacekeeping Training Centre: Uncertain Operational Readiness and Future of an externally fuelled Brigade -- 8. The Southern African Power Pool: An Electrifying Project with untapped



Potential -- 9. Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores regionalism in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and highlights the influence of the European Union (EU) as an extra-regional actor on the organization and integration process. The analysis is guided by theory and explains the emergence, institutional design and performance of SADC's major integration projects in the issue areas of the economy, security and infrastructure. It provides in this way a profound assessment of the organization as a whole. The study shows that South Africa plays a regional key role as driver for integration while external influence of the EU is ambivalent in character because it unfolds a supportive or obstructive impact. The author argues that the EU gains influence over regional integration processes in the SADC on the basis of patterns of asymmetric interdependence and becomes a 'game-changer' insofar as it facilitates or impedes solutions to regional cooperation problems.