1st Edition

China's Rise in Africa Perspectives on a Developing Connection

Edited By Ian Taylor, Dominik Kopinski, Andrzej Polus Copyright 2012
120 Pages
by Routledge

114 Pages
by Routledge

120 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

1. Contextualising Chinese engagement in Africa  Dominik Kopinski, Andrzej Polus and Ian Taylor  2. From refusal to engagement: Chinese contributions to peacekeeping in Africa  Wu Zhengyu and Ian Taylor  3. The ‘voracious dragon’, the ‘scramble’ and the ‘honey pot’: Conceptions of conflict over Africa’s natural resources  Péter Marton and Tamás Matura  4. Uneasy allies: China’s evolving relations with Angola  Lucy Corkin  5. Sino-Zambian relations: ‘An all-weather friendship’ weathering the storm  Dominik Kopiński and Andrzej Polus  6. Sino-Indian co-operation in Africa: Joint efforts in the oil sector  Karolina Wysoczanska  7. The European Union and China’s rise in Africa: Competing visions, external coherence and trilateral cooperation  Maurizio Carbone  8. China’s ‘soft power’ in Africa?  Łukasz Fijałkowski

Biography

Ian Taylor is Professor at the University of St Andrews and University of Stellenbosch.

Dominik Kopiński is Assistant Professor at the Institute of International Studies, University of Wrocław, Poland.

Andrzej Polus is Assistant Professor at the Institute of International Studies, University of Wrocław, Poland.