The success or failure of integration in sub-Saharan Africa

Abstract

CHARLES UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES Master's thesis in the programme..........IEPS....................................................... 1. Given name and Surname of author: Daria Levchenko 2. Title of the Thesis: "The success or failure of integration process in Sub-Saharan Africa" 3. Subordinate title: .......................................……………………………………………….. 4. Year of defence: 2014 5. Number of pages: 141 6. Summary of the Thesis: The Diploma thesis "The success or failure in Sub-Saharan Africa" deals with a topical issue of the integration process in Sub-Saharan Africa. For the last couple of decades, the whole world was under the influence of the integration. The popularity of such economic blocks as the European Union, NAFTA, ASEAN and others lead to further interest in this field. Therefore, it is quite obvious that other countries and regions started to think about similar way of the development, and Sub-Saharan Africa is also among them. The process of integration has started at this continent long time ago, half a century. Ever since countries in the Sub-Saharan Africa gained independence, they started to build their own blocks (communities). Decades of colonial periods, struggle for freedom, the final gain of the independence, and now fight for building united and strong...