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| List of Tables | |
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| List of Figures | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| List of Abbreviations | |
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| Introduction: Mediating China-Africa | |
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| Introduction: the geopolitics of representation | |
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| Postcolonial geopolitical economy | |
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| The political economy of development, globalization and international relations | |
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| Enclaves and surgical colonialism? | |
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| States matter | |
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| Neo-liberalization, African agency and the environment | |
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| Methodological concerns | |
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| Book structure | |
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| Contextualizing China-Africa Relations | |
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| Introduction: a critical genealogy of China-Africa relations | |
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| China in Africa, Africa in China: initial encounters | |
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| The 'Overseas Chinese': migration to Africa and the Chinese diaspora | |
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| From 'Afro-Asian Solidarity' to 'South-South' cooperation | |
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| China's aid projects in Africa | |
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| The Tazara Railway (1967-75) | |
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| China and Africa's �lost decade' | |
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| China in Angola | |
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| Conclusions: constructing a 'history in common' | |
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| Chinese Policies and Their Implications in Africa | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The post-millennium mechanisms of China-Africa diplomacy | |
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| Differential impacts of Chinese policy in Angola and Ghana | |
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| Opportunities and challenges | |
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| FOCAC: lack of a formal permanent institution | |
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| Lack of coordination | |
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| Sustainability, quality and type of projects | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Towards a Chinese 'Socialist Market Economy' | |
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| Introduction: China's economic 'miracle' | |
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| Embracing the market: state socialism and the crisis of accumulation | |
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| China's SOEs and the 'go out' strategy | |
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| The transnational spaces of China's economic development | |
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| Neo-liberalism and China: a 'loose hug' or an 'intimate embrace'? | |
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| Conclusions: China as Africa's 'economic role model' | |
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| Evolving Aid Diplomacy in Africa | |
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| Introduction: aid, Africa and development | |
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| China's aid 'offensive' and the 'established' donors | |
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| Histories and relationships | |
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| Logics, modalities and conditionalities | |
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| Chinese aid in comparative perspective | |
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| Chinese aid in practice: forms, continuities and transformations | |
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| Contemporary development relations in Angola and Ghana | |
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| Donor responses | |
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| At the aid regime level | |
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| At the country level | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Domestic Governance, Regime Stability and African Civil Society | |
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| Introduction: governance dilemmas | |
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| Making sense of the African state | |
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| China's channels of engagement with Africa | |
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| The politics of hybridity and extroversion | |
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| Beyond elites: migration, social relations and micro-politics | |
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| Multiple flows and communities | |
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| Identity politics, political engagement and shadowy ties | |
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| Integration/separation | |
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| Popular responses and civil society reactions | |
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| Civil society responses | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Environmental Implications of China's Rise in Africa | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Political ecology: understanding power relations in the environment sector | |
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| Changing domestic discourses and the internationalization of China's environmental governance | |
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| Chinese involvement in Africa's resource sectors | |
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| The differential impacts of Chinese enterprises on the environment | |
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| Illegal activities | |
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| Roles of multi-stakeholders in global environmental governance | |
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| Conclusion: globalizing China's environmental responsibilities | |
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| The Geopolitics of China-Africa Engagement | |
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| Introduction: China's oil diplomacy and 'soft power' | |
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| The new 'scramble for Africa' | |
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| Disaggregating Chinese foreign policy: the diversity of 'actors' | |
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| Recent shifts in Chinese foreign policy | |
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| China as a 'responsible' great power: peacekeeping and security cooperation | |
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| Conclusion: a 'critical geopolitics' of China-Africa relations | |
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| Changing Contexts and the Future of China-Africa Relations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Current and emerging patterns of engagement | |
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| China, Africa and theories of development | |
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| Future engagements: globalizing Africa-China relations | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |