China's Resource Diplomacy in Africa [electronic resource] : Powering Development? /
Power, M.author.
Mohan, G.author.
Tan-Mullins, M.author.
The book seeks to understand China's evolving political and economic role in Africa and assesses what impacts Chinese aid, trade and investment have on the politics of specific African countries, and the extent to which it excites geopolitical competition.
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; 1 Introduction: Mediating China-Africa; Introduction: the geopolitics of representation; Postcolonial geopolitical economy; The political economy of development, globalization and international relations; Enclaves and surgical colonialism?; States matter; Neo-liberalization, African agency and the environment; Methodological concerns; Book structure; 2 Contextualizing China-Africa Relations; Introduction: a critical genealogy of China-Africa relations
China in Africa, Africa in China: initial encountersThe 'Overseas Chinese': migration to Africa and the Chinese diaspora; From 'Afro-Asian Solidarity' to 'South-South' cooperation; China's aid projects in Africa; The Tazara Railway (1967-75); China and Africa's 'lost decade'; China in Angola; Conclusions: constructing a 'history in common'; 3 Chinese Policies and Their Implications in Africa; Introduction; The post-millennium mechanisms of China-Africa diplomacy; Differential impacts of Chinese policy in Angola and Ghana; Opportunities and challenges
FOCAC: lack of a formal permanent institutionLack of coordination; Sustainability, quality and type of projects; Conclusion; 4 Towards a Chinese 'Socialist Market Economy'; Introduction: China's economic 'miracle'; Embracing the market: state socialism and the crisis of accumulation; China's SOEs and the 'go out' strategy; The transnational spaces of China's economic development; Neo-liberalism and China: a 'loose hug' or an 'intimate embrace'?; Conclusions: China as Africa's 'economic role model'; 5 Evolving Aid Diplomacy in Africa; Introduction: aid, Africa and development
China's aid 'offensive' and the 'established' donorsHistories and relationships; Logics, modalities and conditionalities; Chinese aid in comparative perspective; Chinese aid in practice: forms, continuities and transformations; Contemporary development relations in Angola and Ghana; Donor responses; At the aid regime level; At the country level; Conclusion; 6 Domestic Governance, Regime Stability and African Civil Society; Introduction: governance dilemmas; Making sense of the African state; China's channels of engagement with Africa; The politics of hybridity and extroversion
Beyond elites: migration, social relations and micro-politicsMultiple flows and communities; Identity politics, political engagement and shadowy ties; Integration/separation; Popular responses and civil society reactions; Civil society responses; Conclusion; 7 The Environmental Implications of China's Rise in Africa; Introduction; Political ecology: understanding power relations in the environment sector; Changing domestic discourses and the internationalization of China's environmental governance; Chinese involvement in Africa's resource sectors
The differential impacts of Chinese enterprises on the environment
The book seeks to understand China's evolving political and economic role in Africa and assesses what impacts Chinese aid, trade and investment have on the politics of specific African countries, and the extent to which it excites geopolitical competition.
International relations.
Political economy.
Economic development.
Diplomacy.
Development economics.
Environmental policy.
International Relations.
International Political Economy.
Development Studies.
Diplomacy.
Development Economics.
Environmental Politics.