Overview
- Explores China's foreign policy in relation to Africa
- Differentiates between different foreign policy actors and explains their motives
- Theorizes on the significance of a rising China in Africa
Part of the book series: Governing China in the 21st Century (GC21)
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This book explains why conflict exists among Chinese foreign-policy actors in Africa and argues against the concept that China has a grand strategy in relation to Africa. It does so by examining Sino-African relations by focusing on how China’s Africa policy is constructed and implemented concluding that a large number of actors are active in its formulation and implementation. The book argues that China’s Hegemonic Political Discourse (HPD), the goal of achieving a Harmonious Society and later the Chinese Dream through the Scientific Concept of Development, has dominated Chinese political discourse. It is this HPD that acts as the structural imperative that allows for collective action in the Chinese foreign-policy process in Africa rather than a Chinese grand strategy since the actors are unwilling to break the social norms of the collective process for fear of exclusion.
This book will be of great interest to China watchers and those eager to understand how China's rise will impact the developing world.
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Niall Duggan is a lecturer in the Department of Government and Politics at University College Cork, He was the Acting-Chair of Modern Chinese Society and Economy at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen and lecturer at the Institute of East Asian Politics, Ruhr Universität Bochum.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Competition and Compromise among Chinese Actors in Africa
Book Subtitle: A Bureaucratic Politics Study of Chinese Foreign Policy Actors
Authors: Niall Duggan
Series Title: Governing China in the 21st Century
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8813-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-8812-5Published: 19 August 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-8815-6Published: 19 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-8813-2Published: 02 August 2019
Series ISSN: 2730-6968
Series E-ISSN: 2730-6976
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 241
Topics: Asian Politics, African Politics, Regional Development