Sub-regional integration and democratisation in Africa : critically analysing the approach of the ECOWAS in West Africa

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dc.contributor.advisor Benner, Yaw
dc.contributor.postgraduate Ngarhodjim, Nadjita Francis
dc.date.accessioned 2006-11-27T12:51:47Z
dc.date.available 2006-11-27T12:51:47Z
dc.date.created 05-Oct
dc.date.issued 2005
dc.description Thesis (LLM (Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa)) -- University of Pretoria, 2005.
dc.description.abstract "After their independence, African countries undertook to establish sub-regional organisations in order to join their efforts towards improving the living standard of their populations. Primarily vested with economic objectives, these sub-regional organisations, aware that economic development cannot be attained withouth peace, security and political stability, are more and more involved with political issues, especially since the 'democratic wind' of the early 1990s. It is therefore interesting to study how sub-regional integration as an external factor affects democracy domestically, that is to contemplate to what extent this sub-regional integration is contributing to the strengthening of democracy in Africa, and to research ways of enhancing this contribution. ... The study is structured into four main chapters. The introductory chapter contains the research design. The second chapter is devoted to an overview of sub-regional integration. It examines the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), but without losing sight of other groupings. The third chapter analyses the way the ECOWAS is dealing with the issue of democratic consolidation. It is interested in the question of whether the ECOWAS has an express policy and whether it has set standards as regards democratic consolidation in West Africa and, if so, how effective this policy and these standards have been so far. The fourth chapter is devoted to summary, conclusion and recommendations." -- Introduction. en
dc.description.degree LLM
dc.description.department Centre for Human Rights
dc.description.uri http://www.chr.up.ac.za/academic_pro/llm1/dissertations.html en
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dc.identifier.citation Ngarhodjim, NF 2005, Sub-regional integration and democratisation in Africa: critically analysing the approach of the ECOWAS in West Africa, LLM Mini Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/1155>
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2263/1155
dc.language.iso en en
dc.publisher University of Pretoria
dc.relation.ispartofseries LLM Dissertations en
dc.relation.ispartofseries 2005(16) en
dc.rights Centre for Human Rights, Law Faculty, University of Pretoria en
dc.subject UCTD
dc.subject Economic integration en
dc.subject Sub-regional integration en
dc.subject Regional integration en
dc.subject Integration en
dc.subject Democratisation Africa en
dc.subject Democracy en
dc.subject Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) en
dc.title Sub-regional integration and democratisation in Africa : critically analysing the approach of the ECOWAS in West Africa en
dc.type Mini Dissertation en


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