China's Resource Diplomacy in Africa: Powering Development?
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China's Resource Diplomacy in Africa: Powering Development?
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780230229129 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan UK |
| Publication date: | 07/17/2012 |
| Series: | International Political Economy Series |
| Edition description: | 2012 |
| Pages: | 329 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.70(w) x 8.60(h) x 1.00(d) |
About the Author
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.
Table of Contents
List of Tables x
List of Figures xi
Acknowledgements xiv
List of Abbreviations xv
1 Introduction: Mediating China-Africa 1
Introduction: the geopolitics of representation 1
Postcolonial geopolitical economy 10
The political economy of development, globalization and international relations 10
Enclaves and surgical colonialism? 14
States matter 17
Neo-liberalization, African agency and the environment 18
Methodological concerns 21
Book structure 23
2 Contextualizing China-Africa Relations 26
Introduction: a critical genealogy of China-Africa relations 26
China in Africa, Africa in China: initial encounters 29
The 'Overseas Chinese': migration to Africa and the Chinese diaspora 32
From 'Afro-Asian Solidarity' to 'South-South' cooperation 36
China's aid projects in Africa 43
The Tazara Railway (1967-75) 48
China and Africa's 'lost decade' 50
China in Angola 54
Conclusions: constructing a 'history in common' 58
3 Chinese Policies and Their Implications in Africa 62
Introduction 62
The post-millennium mechanisms of China-Africa diplomacy 64
Differential impacts of Chinese policy in Angola and Ghana 77
Opportunities and challenges 82
FOCAC: lack of a formal permanent institution 83
Lack of coordination 83
Sustainability, quality and type of projects 87
Conclusion 87
4 Towards a Chinese 'Socialist Market Economy' 88
Introduction: China's economic 'miracle' 88
Embracing the market: state socialism and the crisis of accumulation 92
China's SOEs and the 'go out' strategy 100
The transnational spaces of China's economic development 110
Neo-liberalism and China: a 'loose hug' or an 'intimate embrace'? 116
Conclusions: China as Africa's 'economic role model' 123
5 Evolving Aid Diplomacy in Africa 127
Introduction: aid, Africa and development 127
China's aid 'offensive' and the 'established' donors 128
Histories and relationships 128
Logics, modalities and conditionalities 132
Chinese aid in comparative perspective 139
Chinese aid in practice: forms, continuities and transformations 141
Contemporary development relations in Angola and Ghana 141
Donor responses 151
At the aid regime level 152
At the country level 155
Conclusion 158
6 Domestic Governance, Regime Stability and African Civil Society 160
Introduction: governance dilemmas 160
Making sense of the African state 161
China's channels of engagement with Africa 164
The politics of hybridity and extroversion 167
Beyond elites: migration, social relations and micro-politics 171
Multiple flows and communities 172
Identity politics, political engagement and shadowy ties 176
Integration/separation 176
Popular responses and civil society reactions 178
Civil society responses 181
Conclusion 188
7 The Environmental Implications of China's Rise in Africa 191
Introduction 191
Political ecology: understanding power relations in the environment sector 194
Changing domestic discourses and the internationalization of China's environmental governance 195
Chinese involvement in Africa's resource sectors 200
The differential impacts of Chinese enterprises on the environment 205
Illegal activities 207
Roles of multi-stakeholders in global environmental governance 209
Conclusion: globalizing China's environmental responsibilities 216
8 The Geopolitics of China-Africa Engagement 221
Introduction: China's oil diplomacy and 'soft power' 221
The new 'scramble for Africa' 227
Disaggregating Chinese foreign policy: the diversity of 'actors' 233
Recent shifts in Chinese foreign policy 242
China as a 'responsible' great power: peacekeeping and security cooperation 250
Conclusion: a 'critical geopolitics' of China-Africa relations 255
9 Changing Contexts and the Future of China-Africa Relations 260
Introduction 260
Current and emerging patterns of engagement 261
China, Africa and theories of development 265
Future engagements: globalizing Africa-China relations 268
Notes 273
Bibliography 279
Index 323