Overview
- Provides a theoretically guided in-depth country case analysis of the EU and China's interaction with three African Authoritarian regimes
- Draws on more than 200 interviews conducted with government officials, business representatives, civil society actors and researchers in three African countries and China as well as with policy-makers in Brussels and selected EU member states
- Provides the first comprehensive and comparative analysis of the EU and China's engagement with three African countries during the past decade
Part of the book series: Governance and Limited Statehood (GLS)
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This open access book analyses the domestic politics of African dominant party regimes, most notably African governments’ survival strategies, to explain their variance of opinions and responses towards the reforming policies of the EU. The author discredits the widespread assumption that the growing presence of China in Africa has made the EU’s task of supporting governance reforms difficult, positing that the EU’s good governance strategies resonate better with the survival strategies of governments in some dominant party regimes more so than others, regardless of Chinese involvement. Hackenesch studies three African nations – Angola, Ethiopia and Rwanda – which all began engaging with the EU on governance reforms in the early 2000s. She argues that other factors generally identified in the literature, such as the EU good governance strategies or economic dependence of the target country on the EU, have set additional incentives for African governments to not engage on governance reforms.
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Book Title: The EU and China in African Authoritarian Regimes
Book Subtitle: Domestic Politics and Governance Reforms
Authors: Christine Hackenesch
Series Title: Governance and Limited Statehood
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63591-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-63590-3Published: 13 June 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09698-4Published: 26 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-63591-0Published: 30 May 2018
Series ISSN: 2947-8944
Series E-ISSN: 2947-8952
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 261
Number of Illustrations: 25 b/w illustrations
Topics: International Political Economy, Development Studies, European Union Politics, European Economics, Asian Economics, African Economics