The finances of regional organisations in the global South : follow the money / edited by Ulf Engel and Frank Mattheis.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The finances of regional organisations in the South: challenges of studying a neglected facet of regionalism / Ulf Engel and Frank Mattheis -- The finances of the African Union (AU) / Ulf Engel -- The finances of the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries (CPLP) / Jens Herpolsheimer -- The finances of the East African Community (EAC) / HabibuYaya Bappah -- The finances of the International Conference on Great Lakes Region (ICGLC) / Nickson Bondo Museka -- The finances of the Intergovernmental Authority for Development (IGAD) / Mulugeta Gebrehiwot -- The finances of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) / Frank Mattheis -- Mapping and problematising external funding to the African Union and the Regional Economic Communities / S�oren Stapel and Fredrik S�oderbaum -- Modernising the partnership between donors and regional organisations in Africa : the case of the African Union Commission / Jan Vanheukelom -- The finances of the League of Arab States (LAS) / Ali A. Soliman -- The finances of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) / Anne Marie Hoffmann -- The finances of the Common Market of the South (MERCOSUR) / Karina Lilia Pasquariello Mariano and Clarissa Correa Neto Ribeiro -- The finances of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) / Anne Marie Hoffmann -- The finances of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) / Sandra Destradi -- The finances of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) / Stephen Aris and Kateryna Boguslavska -- The finances of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) / Thomas Ambrosio -- Towards a new typology of regionalism : a comparative approach to the finances of regional organisations / Ulf Engel and Frank Mattheis.

"This book addresses a major gap in the longstanding research on regional organisations: how do their finances work and what do they reveal about the region-building process? It brings together an empirically rich collection of chapters written by experts of regional organisations in Latin America, Africa and Asia. Based on the insights on thirteen regional organisations as well as two chapters dedicated to the influence of external funders, the editors develop typologies to cluster regional organisations according to their financial characteristics: the size of budgets, the sources of funding and the criteria to calculate contributions. Through analysing the process of budgeting and resourcing, the book sheds light on the different nature and functioning of these organisations existing outside of the Global North and puts a specific emphasis on regional organisations in the area of security in Africa and the Global South. It provides explanations to why members pay or do not pay and how budgeting works, and it deals with data availability, the role of donors, overlapping regionalism, cultural transfers between regional organisations and the impact on regional actorness. This volume will be of key interest to scholars and students of African studies and politics, the Global South, the finances of international organisations, comparative regionalism, international political economy and international relations"-- Provided by publisher.

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