Regional Trade Agreements, Prosperity and the Global South

Yenkong Ngangjoh Hodu is a Professor of International Law at the University of Manchester Law School. He has written many books and over four dozen articles and book chapters on international law with focus on international economic law and the Global South. He is regularly consulted by governments around the world, regional organisations and UN Agencies on international law issues. Collins Chikodili Ajibo (Ph.D. and LLM Manchester) holds Georg Forster Research Fellowship and Sustainable Governance Senior Fellowship. Dr Ajibo is a Reader at the University of Nigeria. He is the author of The African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement: Legal and Policy Frameworks (2024)

• Introduction; Part I. Prosperity in International Trade Law as a Mirage: A Mutually constituted approach to Regional Trade Law: 1. Normative beliefs in international trade law; 2. Globalisation and regional trade arrangements; 3. Regional trade regimes, disputes settlement and International law; Part II. Prosperity and Specific Regional Trade Arrangements as International Regimes: 4. The Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) as an international regime; 5. The African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement (AfCFTA) as a legal regime; 6. Southern Common market (Mercosur) as an international regime; 7. USMCA as a regional integration project; 8. Achieving lasting prosperity in regional trade law: possible lessons for future trade arrangements; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.