Africa-EU Relations and the African Continental Free Trade Area Redefining the Dynamics of Power and Economic Partnership in a Complex Global Order

This book examines the establishment and implementation of the AfCFTA, which is the largest free trade area globally, covering 54 African countries. It explores how this initiative has the potential to reshape Africa-EU relations by promoting intra-African trade, economic integration, and diversification, as well as inter- regional trade. Both continents have the potential to serve as global actors in reshaping the global order in ways that can affect how multilateralism fosters inclusive development. However, whether this will happen would be a function of how the EU and AU define their interests and relationship.

Chapter 1: Introduction Redefining the Dynamics of Power and Economic Partnership in Africa-EU Relations through the African Common Free Trade Area (AfCFTA).- Chapter 2:  Euro-African relations in a changing global order: Shifting balance through the Russia-Ukraine war and the African Continental Free Trade Area?.- Chapter 3: Analysis of the AU-EU relations under the AfCFTA framework in a neoliberal Context.- Chapter 4: Improving Intra-African Trade for AfCFTA and Non-AFCFTA Trade Flows through trade Policy regime: Lessons from European Union.- Chapter 5: Hackathons as a Support Tool for the AU-EU Partnership JAES: A case study.- Chapter 6: Africa –EU digital technology exchange and agribusiness development in developing economies within the African Continental Free Trade Area: The case of Leribe and Thaba-tseka districts in Lesotho.- Chapter 7: Brexit and the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA): Some Lessons and Challenges from East Africa.- Chapter 8: The practice of soft power in Africa EU Relations is optimal or one-sided.- Chapter 9: The European Union’s Soft Power in Africa: Model or Placebo?.- Chapter 10: African - European Trade Cooperation and The Promise of African Continental Free Trade Area As Africa’s Soft Power.- Chapter 11: Global Challenges, Regional Interventions: Exploring the Climate Change Adaptation Strategies of the African Union and the European Union.- Chapter 12: “No One Should Be Left Behind”: EU and Inclusion of Civil Society in the African.- Common Free Trade Area.- Chapter 13: Towards Redefined Dynamics of Power and Economic Partnership in Africa-EU Relations in the Complex Global Order.

Leon Mwamba Tshimpaka is Senior Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Centre for the Study of Governance Innovation (GovInn) and the SARChI Research Chair in the Political Economy of Migration in the SADC Region in the Department of Political Sciences of the University of Pretoria, South Africa.

Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba is Assistant Professor at the Institute of African Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada and Honorary Professor at the Thabo Mbeki African School of Public and International Affairs, University of South Africa, where he was previously an Associate Professor.