African-Asian Relations: Past, Present, Future

,

• Publisher: LIT Verlag
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9783643803320
• eBook ISBN: 9783643853325
• Topic: Economics
• Subtopic: Political Economy
• Index: Economics

Is the impression of a new dynamism in African-Asian relations empirically correct? Is it a process that will once be accepted as one of the fundamental transformations of World Society in the 21st century? This volume addresses these questions in 14 chapters, from a look back to 2000 years of African-Asian contacts and exchange to the analysis of the origins of this new inter-regional dynamism. On the Asian side, the focus is on China, which has - with the Forum on China-African Cooperation (FOCAC), the Belt and Road Initative with numerous infrastructure projects, development assistance, resource deals, and the support for the African Union in Africa - drawn most attention, but also recent initiatives by India and South Korea are described. On the African side, the recent developments in Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Angola, Guinea, Tanzania, Ghana, Zimbabwe and South Africa are analyzed in detail, with a special focus on the various impacts of the recent and ongoing projects and initiatives and the conditions under which they exert developmental or detrimental economic, Do we witness the repetition of past mistakes of development policies at higher level, or is this time everything different? Patrick Ziltener is an Associate Professor at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. Christian Suter is Professor of Sociology at the University of Neuchâtel and President of the World Society Foundation, Zurich, Switzerland.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• About the World Society Foundation
• Preface
• 1 African–Asian Relations: 2000 Years of History and the New Dynamism in the 21st Century
• 2 Ancient Connections Between Asia and East Africa (1st through 15th Centuries)
• 3 The Arrival of “Made in China” in Burkina Faso: An African Transnational Traders’ History
• 4 Africa and China: Still Geographically Distant, Yet Increasingly Linked through the Belt and Road Initiative
• 5 The Regional Dimension of Sino-African Development Cooperation
• 6 Reimagining Engagement and Realigning Priorities: Contrasting Indian and Chinese Approaches to Africa
• 7 The Perils of China’s Silk Road for a Pax Africana: Ghana’s Prosaic Dance with Destiny?
• 8 China in the Developing World—Rogue Aid Donor or Cure That Comes with Side Effects?
• 9 The Revitalization of China and Côte d’Ivoire Cooperation, 1994–2013
• 10 Chinese Infrastructure Projects in Central Africa: The Specter of White Elephants?
• 11 The Challenges of Cross-National Knowledge Sharing: A Case Study of an International Collaborative Project Between South Korea and Tanzania
• 12 Mafan: Community Formation and Dynamics of Nigerian-Chinese Interracial Interaction in Guangzhou City
• 13 Implications of Zimbabwe's Re-Engagement Policy on its Bilateral Relations with China
• 14 How Do Chinese and Other Asian Immigrants Fare in the South African Labor Market? An Examination of Inequalities in Employment Using Data from South Africa
• Contributors
• Map Africa
• Index of African Countries, Places, and Institutions