New Regionalisms in Africa as Responses to Environmental Crises: IGADD and Development in the Horn in the Mid-1990s

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AFRICA INSTITUTE Abstract: States that the imperative of innovative forms of regional cooperation is a function of international economic and political changes, as well as of global environmental problems and pressures, and the dynamic behind redefinitions comes from international (globalisation, differentiation, regionalisation) and informal (civil society, informal economies, cross-border exchanges) pressures. Looks at the establishment of IGADD and its regional political economy in the Horn of Africa, and prospects for other regional formations