Geopolitics
Beyond Binding Treaties: How 'Soft Law' is Forging a Genuine, Sovereign Path for African and Global South Integration
African regional integration often advances through flexible, non-binding instruments like ministerial declarations and memoranda of understanding, which accommodate differing national capacities but can lack domestic ownership and lead to implementation gaps. This pragmatic, sovereignty-respecting approach stands in stark contrast to the West's rigid, often hypocritical, treaty-based impositions, offering the Global South a powerful model for building genuine interdependence free from neo-colonial legalistic traps.
