Research Papers

The proposed paper will document and analyze an empowerment of East African Community (EAC), which results a transfer of authority to supranational body, and a transfer of particular European rules and norms into (and from above) the East African Community. It will seek to answer the question of whether African states cooperate or compete within the regional agreements, what is the role of the European norms for regional integration in Africa, and to what extent the EU’s activity supports transfer of authority from national states to regional institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa. The proposed project consists of three parts, and the first part of the project focuses the relevance of regional integration idea for the European Union and the relevance of this idea in the European policy toward Africa. African regional communities seem to be “a laboratory for Europeanisation” beyond the EU borders, due to long tradition of European influence, therefore I will document and analyze the motivations, methods, and spheres of the EU’s activity in promoting regional integration in Africa. The second part focuses on the impact of the European model, and responses from African states. Therefore the proposed project focuses on the rationalization of regional integration in Sub-Saharan Africa, and answers the question what kind of rationality is prevailing among EAC members regarding models of integration. To achieve a complete understanding of authority in regional projects, it’s necessary to trace not only the conditions and decisions, but also the instruments used during the implementation process and their effectiveness. Thus the third part concerns the analysis of instruments which have been used for transfer the authority from EAC member states, with support of the European Union.