Part 1 Regionalism and globalization in sub-Saharan Africa: revisiting a paradigm, Daniel Bach; multilateralism and regionalism in international economic relations, Alice Landau; African regional economic integration and the European Union, Walter Kennes. Part 2 States and territories: crisis of the state and communalism - new ideological stakes in African integration, Dominique Darbon; boundaries and states in the new African order, Christopher Clapham; paradoxes and ambiguities of democratization, Abdoulaye Niandou Souley; is African civil society civilized?, Celestin Monga; the collapse of Congo/Zaire and its regional impact, Edouard Bustin; integration and disintegration in the Nigerian Federation, Rotimi Suberu; territoriality and institutional change in the new South Africa, Simon Bekker. Part 3 Regional organizations: integration in ECOWAS - successes and difficulties, Olatunde B.J. Ojo; failing institutions and shattered spaces - what regional integration in Central Africa?, Marc-Louis Ropivia; the renovation of UDEAC - sense and nonsense in Central African integration, Michel Lelart; the rival strategies of SADC and COMESA in Southern Africa, Peter Takirambudde; SACU and the Rand zone, Colin McCarthy. Part 4 Networks: cross-border trade in West Africa - the Gahan-Cote d'Ivoire frontier, Bruno Stary; personal networks and trans-frontier trade - Zairean and Congolese migrants, Janet MacGaffey and Remy Bazenguissa; the production and distribution of illicit drugs, Alain Labrousse.