China's Resource Diplomacy in Africa

Powering Development?
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-349-31049-4
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 329 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 444 g

Reihe: International Political Economy Series

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Power, M.

Tan-Mullins, M.

Mohan, G.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Diplomatie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Entwicklungsstudien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Mediating China-Africa Contextualising China-Africa Relations Chinese Policies and its Implications in Africa Towards a Chinese 'Socialist Market Economy' Evolving Aid Diplomacy in Africa Domestic Governance, Regime Stability and African Civil Society Eco-Politics and Environmental Diplomacy: Chinese Environmental Governance and its Footprints in Africa The Geopolitics of China-Africa Engagement Conclusion: Contexts, Changes and Future of China-Africa Relations

Über Autor(innen)

MARCUS POWER Professor in Human Geography at the University of Durham, UK. His research interests include post-socialist transformations in Southern Africa; critical geographies and genealogies of (post)development; post-colonial geographies of Lusophone Africa; vision, visuality and geopolitics and the terms of China-Africa engagement. He is author of Rethinking Development Geographies (2003).
GILES MOHAN Professor of International Development at The Open University, UK. He is a human geographer who studies African governance and the transnational connections to and from Africa, especially migrants. He has published extensively in geography, development studies and African studies journals and has consulted for a range of BBC documentaries on issues of international development.
MAY TAN-MULLINS Assistant Professor in International Relations, at the division of International Studies, University of Nottingham, Ningbo, China. She is also a consultant for the National Bureau of Asian Research, Revenue Watch and Transparency and Accountability Initiative in the United States, working on energy and resources issues.