The research project Crafting Regional Authority in Africa and Latin America, Measuring a New Political Phenomenon (ANR REGPOL-ALA) within which this seminar is embedded, focuses on the analysis of political (de jure) and expert (de facto) authority of regional organisations in Latin America and Africa through a relational and actor-based approach. This research aims to go beyond the formal institutional approaches of international organizations’ authority, not only by focusing on specificities of regional authority but also by accounting for the sociological aspects and practices of authority within regional organizations.
The research seminar “Authority and African regionalisms” brings together scholars from different universities working in the field of regional studies to broaden the analysis of regional authority. The speakers will be asked to prepare a 15 minutes presentation of their intake on the stake of authority in African regional organizations, followed by discussions on the subject matter.
The research seminar is organized by the University of Tours (France) / Institut de Recherche Juridiques Interdisciplinaires (IRJI) and United Nations University Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS).
When: January 24, 2024, 10 am – 17 pm
Where: United Nations University CRIS, Potterierei 72, 8000 BRUGGE, Belgium & online
Online registration in advance is required. The working language will be English. Further information can be found on the UNU-CRIS-website.
Program
10:00 am – 10:30 am: Welcome speeches
- Philippe De Lombaerde - UNU-CRIS Director
- Kevin Parthenay - Professor of Political Science (University of Tours) and REGPOL- ALA’s Principal Investigator.
10:30 am – 12:30 pm: Morning Session
- Frank Mattheis (UNU-CRIS) & Ueli Stager (University of Amsterdam)
- Antonia Witt (Peace Research Institute Frankfurt)
- Open debate
14:30 pm – 16:30 pm: Afternoon Session
- Dimpho Deleglise (Peace Research Institute Frankfurt) – South African Development Community (SADC) (to be confirmed)
- Emmanuel Balogun (Skidmore College) – Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)
- Mariel Reiss (University Marburg) – East African Community (EAC)
16:30 pm – 17:00 pm Concluding keynote
- Fredrik Söderbaum (University of Gothenburg)