Full Description
This book provides insight into the economic partnerships between African governments and China offered by the Belt and Road Initiative. It examines the Belt and Road Initiative from a macro and microeconomic perspective to present a detailed understanding of the transformation of African development policies since the initiative began. Particular attention is given to the historical context behind the Belt and Road Initiative, the financing of infrastructure and public services in Africa, the spread of technology from China to Africa, China's position within the global political order, African energy markets, and the development of special economic zones.
This book grounds analysis of the Belt and Road Initiative within specific policies and case studies from Africa. It will be relevant to students, researchers and practitioners interested in development economics and the political economy.
Contents
1. The Ideology of the BRI.- 2. The determinants of China's participation in the financing of infrastructure and public services in Africa.- 3. Money is the anthem of success: A Big Data Approach to Exploring the Role of BATX Companies in the Internationalisation of the Yuan.- 4. China's One Belt One Road Initiative: Master Plan of China to become a Superpower through economic technology.- 5. The New Silk Road: A tool for China's Global Leadership in Africa?.- 6. Marginal States in the BRI: a New Economic Nationalist Outlook on China in South Africa.- 7. Comparing the US, Brazil, and China in African Energy Markets, 2008-2019: The long-term Effects of Self-Sufficiency.- 8. China's Interventions in Special Economic Zones of Maritime Belt and Road Initiative.- 9. 'Nasty, brutish and substandard': An examination of China's Belt and Road Initiative Projects in Africa.- 10. BRI and Transfer of Chinese Digital Technology in Higher Education in Cameroon.- 11. The importance of African countries in the development of electromobility in China.- 12. African Media and the BRI: Kenya and Ghana in Comparative Perspective, 2013-2020.- 13. The "Belt and Road Initiative" - a strategy to the rescue of Senegal? Questioning the concept of 'emergence' through Macky Sall's operational code.- 14. Delivering Technologies of Surveillance : China, the BRI and the Futures of Security in Africa : The Role of "Cameroon Intelligent City Project".- 15. BRI and Tranfer of Chinese Digital Technology in Higher Education in Cameroon.- 16. Infrastructures for Development? What transfer of Technologies Do Not Tell us About? Interpreting Tanzania-China Relations During and Post John Magufuli Presidency.- 17. The imbroglio of the transboundary Mbalam-Nabeba ore iron project between Cameroon and Congo : an opportunity for the extension of the belt road initiative.- 18. Chinese Diasporas in the BRI: The Case of Madagascar and South-Africa.- 19. Merchants or Decoys: Ethnic Chinese Diaspora in the BRI Route.- 20. The Effects of Arab Springs in the BRI: The Counter-Terrorism Strategy of the Belt and Road China's Initiative".- 21. Impact of China's Belt and Road Initiative on Pacific Island Countries: Providing Economic and Political Opportunities.- 22. Polar silk way in the context of sino-russian cooperation.
