Modes of Regional Governance in Africa: Neoliberalism, Sovereignty Boosting, and Shadow Networks

The profound implications of globalization, regionalization, and the restructuring of the nation-state have made it necessary to transcend the conventional obsession with national government and recognize the emergence of new and revised authority and governance structures, both "above" and "below" the level of national government. The political and institutional landscape is in transformation. Soderbaum details the need to think in terms of more complex, multilevel modes of governance, in which the state is reorganized and assumes different functions and where nonstate actors also contribute.