Dependency in international regimes: the case of the apparel industry in sub-Saharan Africa

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Title:	Dependency in international regimes: the case of the apparel industry in sub-Saharan Africa
Author:	Kindiki, Moses Mpuria
Year:	2014
Periodical:	Review of African Political Economy (ISSN 0305-6244)
Volume:	41
Issue:	142
Pages:	594-608
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Subsaharan Africa
Subjects:	international relations dependence ideologies clothing industry
External link:	https://doi.org/10.1080/03056244.2014.930023
Abstract:	This article shows the relationship between regime and dependency theories. Its central argument is that international regimes primarily serve the accumulation interests of metropolitan capitalism, and hence perpetuate dependency. Using the case of the apparel industry in sub-Saharan Africa, it brings to the fore both the dependency and struggle in international regimes that mainstream regime theory masks. The article concludes that, in its struggle to embed industry, Africa will need to clearly interpret the parameters of a more complex international political economy than that described in the classic dependency literature of the 1970s, and respond to them with cleverness and alacrity. Bibliogr., sum. in English and French. [Journal abstract]