ESSAY

By

YANKAM LEMDJO FRANCK MAXIME.

The LLM Application Question 2010 "The people and the government of the country of which you are a national have not been very enthusiastic about greater African political and economic integration" Do you agree with this statement? Substantiate your view in a well-structured essay.

The concept of regional integration has not yet been easy to surround. This can be attested from various definitions proposed by some authors. According to Ali M El-Agraa[1], « regional integration in the modern interdependent world has become more pervasive and complex than ever before, a product of various permutations and the outcome of many and varied forces. Invariably, these forces are the result of multi-dimensional complex of historical, ideological, political, socio-economical and functional factors (…) integration is much more a process of becoming than it is a clear outcome or a definite political end state ». This modern approach of the integration is seen as from the Regionalism Approach, a recent emergence in the theorical definition of regionalisation which is called today « the New Regionalism Approach » (NRA); For Ernst; B Haas[2], this approach is based upon « the assumption that the multidimensionality of contemporary regionalisation warrants a new type of analysis one which transcends the dominant theories of regionalisation. Under the NRA, integration is conceptualised as a multidimensional and socially, environment and other issues .It involves not only state actors but also private industry and civil society ». This approach came after the classical or traditional approach of the concept; This classical theory has been articulated by some authors as Karl W Deutch[3], who think that that there cannot be a regional integration without some preconditions as well as integrationist intention among role players... which would lead to a federal supra-nationalism with clear theorical distinction between integrative