Efforts to conclude Economic Partnership Agreements between African-Caribbean-Pacific countries and European Union drag on. The former prefers the Agreements as cooperation agreements, promoting development, whereas the latter prefers them strictly as trade regimes. Contested issues include the Agreements? scope and replacement of non-reciprocity of preferences wit...

Efforts to conclude Economic Partnership Agreements between African-Caribbean-Pacific countries and European Union drag on. The former prefers the Agreements as cooperation agreements, promoting development, whereas the latter prefers them strictly as trade regimes. Contested issues include the Agreements? scope and replacement of non-reciprocity of preferences wit...

Executing regional projects successfully remains a challenge for African organizations. The Organisation of African Unity (OAU) had poor results. Presently, the African Union/New Partnership for Africa's Development is struggling. Its projects are mainly a recycle of OAU's abandoned projects. The author groups these projects under political, sociotechnological, and...