Amity and Enmity in Regional Integration; the East African Community (EAC) Experience

East African Community from a traditional three states to the current six has undergone different experiences in her cooperation and integration process pre-independence, independence era, post-independence era which suits definition of contemporary era. The context global political economy revolves around post-tripartite trading block among neighboring states, shaped by empirical theory (what is question) as opposed normative “what ought be”. Such realities are relationships based forms amity enmity competition between citizens/states over policy preferences interests. resultant effects lead to; first, shifts patterns integration, secondly, existence durability endurability integration. After examination assessment respectively relation experience, this article/presentation proposes need transcend above for Cooperation Integration process. Underscoring state region such EAC defines Regional Security Complex due socio-eco-political beneficial security interdependences existing vs potential conflicts. unified developmental-centric approach through foregoing prompts application Theory (RSCT) Buzan Waver.