Abstract
Since independence African governments have had much support for regional integration. They have embraced it as an important aspect of their development strategies and concluded a very large number of regional integration arrangements. The focus of this study is one of the regional integration arrangements – the East African Community. While there have been several empirical studies that attempt to explain the phenomenon of regional integration. This study will not attempt to test any specific hypothesis but will embark on a careful study of the experiment of the East African Community with a goal of generating one or several hypotheses that could be tested later to add to our understanding of the factors that seem to determine the success or failure of regional integration on the African continent and elsewhere. I will present five factors which seem to determine the success or failure of regional integration with specific attention to the efforts of the second iteration of the East African Community. These factors include; the relative size of the states considering unification/ distribution of power, sufficient homogeneity, ideological orientation, dependence on the external world, and the rate of transaction among them.
Advisor
N'Diaye, Boubacar
Second Advisor
Krain, Matthew
Department
Political Science
Recommended Citation
Ekii, Francis, "The Promises And Hurdles of Regional Integration: The Case of the East African Community" (2017). Senior Independent Study Theses. Paper 11791.
https://openworks.wooster.edu/independentstudy/11791
Disciplines
Political Science
Publication Date
2017
Degree Granted
Bachelor of Arts
Document Type
Senior Independent Study Thesis
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