Az afrikai regionális integrációk szervezeti formái és céljai
Organizational Forms and Purposes of the African Regional Integrations

Summary/Abstract: Only a few pages of books discussing integration provide information on African regional integrations. Unfortunately even that information is rudimentary. The author has been addressing the subject for years and this article contains a considerably abridged excerpt from his extensive manuscript monography. The brief introduction on Pan-African integrational organizations is followed by the substantive chapter on regional integrations offering in its first part an overview of colonial antecedents, the often still persistent structures of the administrative/ power breakdown of the geographical space, as well as the nationalistic and maverick policies complicating integration ensuing independence to be studied in addition to other factors. Compared to other regions of the globe the African regional national congregations reflect multifarious varieties in respect of their integrational progress and goals. They would basically like to harvest the benefits of economic integrations yet also aspire to solicit social aspects. No political integration has formed as yet. The majority of the regional integrations was established in the wave lasting until the mid ninety-eighties whereas the energy dedicated to establishment is going sparse. The efficient operation is hampered by the over two dozens of spatially more-fold overlapping organizations. The closing chapter of the article discusses a few disputed theoretical questions on integrations and ultimately concludes that despite numerous declarations and projects the national congregations still fail to function as a genuine supranational integration.

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