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India and China in Africa: A comparative perspective of the oil industry book cover

1st Edition

India and China in Africa A comparative perspective of the oil industry

By Raj Verma Copyright 2017
302 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

302 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

302 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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With their phenomenal growth rates, India and China are surging ahead as world economic powers. Due to increasing instability in the Middle East, they have turned to Africa to procure oil to fuel their industrialisation process. Africa’s economy stands to be impacted in various ways due to the increasing interaction with these ‘Asian Giants’. This book analyses the acquisition of oil blocks by... Read more

Part I Introduction

Part II Conceptual framework and background

1. Neoclassical Realsim

2. India and China in Africa and West Africa

Part III India and China

3. India and China: difference in power and political economies

4. Oil industry in India and China

Part IV Case Studies

5. India and China in Angola

6. India and China in Nigeria

7. India and China in eight countries in West Africa

Part V Conclusion

Biography

Dr Raj Verma is Assistant Professor in International Relations at the School of International and Public Affairs at Jilin University, China. His research is focused on India’s and China’s foreign policy and comparative political economy, India and China in Africa, India-China-US relations and international relations theory.

'Prof. Verma has indeed undertaken an extraordinary study in a record time replete with academic references and records of interviews with the leading personalities involved in policymaking.'

K. Subramanian, Chennai Centre for China Studies

"Breaks new ground [...] Its research and arguments lend it methodological rigour."

Arpita Anant, Asian Affairs

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