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In African Countries and the Global Scramble for China, Mbaidjol engages the reader, from African perspectives and African People’s interests, in a theme that is currently fuelling international relations debates.
Author : Ngonlardje Kabra Mbaidjol
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 20,53 MB
Release : 2018-12-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9004388249
In African Countries and the Global Scramble for China, Mbaidjol engages the reader, from African perspectives and African People’s interests, in a theme that is currently fuelling international relations debates.
Author : Pádraig Carmody
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 39,18 MB
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0745672949
Once marginalized in the world economy, the past decade has seen Africa emerge as a major global supplier of crucial raw materials like oil, uranium and coltan. With its share of world trade and investment now rising and the availability of natural resources falling, the continent finds itself at the centre of a battle to gain access to and control of its valuable natural assets. China's role in Africa has loomed particularly large in recent years, but there is now a new scramble taking place involving a wider range of established and emerging economic powers from the EU and US to Japan, Brazil and Russia. This book explores the nature of resource and market competition in Africa and the strategies adopted by the different actors involved - be they world powers or small companies. Focusing on key commodities, the book examines the dynamics of the new scramble and the impact of current investment and competition on people, the environment, and political and economic development on the continent. New theories, particularly the idea of Chinese "flexigemony" are developed to explain how resources and markets are accessed. While resource access is often the primary motive for increased engagement, the continent also offers a growing market for low-priced goods from Asia and Asian-owned companies. Individual chapters explore old and new economic power interests in Africa; oil, minerals, timber, biofuels, food and fisheries; and the nature and impacts of Asian investment in manufacturing and other sectors. The New Scramble for Africa will be essential reading for students of African studies, international relations, and resource politics as well as anyone interested in current affairs.
Author : Lee Wengraf
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 28,74 MB
Release : 2018-02-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1608468763
Extracting profit explains why Africa, in the first decade and a half of the twenty-first century, has undergone an economic boom. This period of “Africa rising” did not lead to the creation of jobs but has instead fueled the growth of the extraction of natural resources and an increasingly-wealthy African ruling class.
Author : Fantu Cheru
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 43,29 MB
Release : 2010-03-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 184813827X
In recent years, China and India have become the most important economic partners of Africa and their footprints are growing by leaps and bounds, transforming Africa's international relations in a dramatic way. Although the overall impact of China and India's engagement in Africa has been positive in the short-term, partly as a result of higher returns from commodity exports fuelled by excessive demands from both countries, little research exists on the actual impact of China and India's growing involvement on Africa's economic transformation. This book examines in detail the opportunities and challenges posed by the increasing presence of China and India in Africa, and proposes critical interventions that African governments must undertake in order to negotiate with China and India from a stronger and more informed platform.
Author : Robert Bickers
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 25,62 MB
Release : 2016-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0141983507
In the early nineteenth century China remained almost untouched by British and European powers - but as new technology started to change this balance, foreigners gathered like wolves around the weakening Qing Empire. Would the Chinese suffer the fate of much of the rest of the world, carved into pieces by Europeans? Or could they adapt rapidly enough to maintain their independence? This important and compelling book explains the roots of China's complex relationship with the West by illuminating a dramatic, colourful and sometimes shocking period of the country's history.
Author : Roger Southall
Publisher : University of Kwazulu Natal Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,16 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Africa
ISBN : 9781869141714
Raises significant general questions relating to the nature of global competition between the US and China; the centrality of the struggle for oil and minerals and resulting militarisation; the international battle to capture Africa's markets; and, the marginalisation of African capitalism.
Author : Sabella O. Abidde
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 35,95 MB
Release : 2021-02-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1793612331
This book examines Sino-African relations and their impact on Africa. It argues that Africa’s relationship with China has had a profound impact on key sectors in Africa—economic and political development, the media, infrastructural development, foreign direct investments, loans, debt peonage, and international relations. The authors also analyze the imperialist and neo-colonialist implications of this relationship and discuss the degree to which the relationship is beneficial to Africa.
Author : Godwin Eli Kwadzo Dzah
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 41,10 MB
Release : 2024-05-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 1009354043
A pioneering study that challenges the legal orthodoxy of sustainable development in international law from a non-Western perspective.
Author : Ian Taylor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 22,60 MB
Release : 2014-10-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1317995341
In seeking to cultivate external relations with African countries, China has long stressed its commonly shared roots with African nations as a developing country rather than a Western state, and as such the symbolic attraction of China clearly reverberates with many African elites who seem to look on China as a positive development model. However, it should be noted that this has not been embraced solely by dictatorial or authoritarian regimes but in fact China’s approach to non-interference has struck a chord even with those democratically elected leaders in Africa. While such practices clearly benefit African elites, it is remains doubtful that they do so for ordinary Africans, although sustained analysis suggests that potential exists, albeit hampered by the modalities of governance on the continent. This book brings together experts on the topic to throw light on some of the more contentious aspects of the relationship. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Contemporary African Studies.
Author : John Hossein Ghazvinian
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 13,5 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Petroleum
ISBN : 0151011389
To find out how the new oil boom is affecting Africa, Ghazvinian traveled the country for a firsthand look. The result is a high-octane narrative that reveals the challenges, obstacles, reasons for despair, and reasons for hope emerging from the worlds newest energy hot spot.