Regional Integration and Social Cohesion

This book examines key challenges to the cultivation of social cohesion at the regional and national levels. It asks the question whether regional integration as currently practised presents a hospitable site for the cultivation and delivery of social goods in Africa and elsewhere in the developing world.

Candice Moore holds a PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science, an MPhil from the University of Cambridge, and a BA Honours degree from the Rand Afrikaans University. Her research at the NRF-SARChI Chair at the University of Johannesburg focuses on the foreign policies of emerging states, mainly South Africa and Brazil, as well as the development of IR theory in these two countries. She has long held an interest in regional integration in Africa and beyond.

Contents: Dumisani S. Kumalo: International and Continental Social Cohesion: The missing link in regional integration – Candice Moore: Social Cohesion and the Challenge of Globalisation: An unfolding African response? – Harlan Koff: Comparing the ‘A, B, Cs’ of Social Cohesion across World Regions: Association, belonging and change – Robert Mattes: «Asocial Cohesion»: Political community and social capital in Africa’s democratising societies – Daniel C. Bach: Thick Institutionalism Lean Integration: New regionalism in Africa – Maxi Schoeman: Regional Integration, Regionalism and Regionalisation in Africa: An imagined reality? – John Akokpari: The Crisis of Social Cohesion in Africa: Is regionalism the answer? – Hugo Fazio Vengoa: América Latina en los inicios de la segunda década el siglo XXI: ¿Colisión o resonancia de temporalidades? – Roberto S. Durán: Breves reflexiones en torno a la cooperación latinoamericana, 1990-2010 – Vanessa Barolsky: Interrogating Social Cohesion: The South African case – Le Bach Duong/Khuat Thu Hong: Post-Socialist Regime and Challenges to Social Cohesion Structure in Vietnam.