Regionalism and Regions: East Africa Integration or Disintegration?

Does regionalism succeed in regions where there is turmoil and disorder? Neo Functionalists like Jean Monette, largely agree that chaotic areas with a tremendous deficit in democracy, can not integrate economically, politically and socially because freedoms and individual State non-interference are the foundations for the formation of a supranational body at the regional level. Their case study was largely the EU and therefore Euro-Centric. That where democracy and freedoms are found to be scarce, the 'Thesis' and prognosis is simply 'non-integration', in such a region. Do the current empirical studies support the same view? This is the question, the real elephant in the room!

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Dr. Murumba Wangamati - BA Delhi, MA, Mumbai and PhD Mmust. He is a part-time Lecturer in International studies at the university of Nairobi. Areas of Interest are: Global Order Studies, Regionalism, and IR theory.