ISBN:
9780472074549
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9780472054541
Language:
English
Pages:
xii, 191 Seiten
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Benabdallah, Lina Shaping the future of power
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Benabdallah, Lina Shaping the future of power
DDC:
327.5106
Keywords:
Investments, Chinese
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Manpower policy
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Power (Social sciences)
;
China Foreign relations
;
Africa Foreign relations
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China Foreign economic relations
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Africa Foreign economic relations
;
China
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Außenpolitik
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Afrika
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Vernetzung
Abstract:
"China's rise to power has become one of the most discussed questions in both International Relations Theory (IRT) and Foreign Policy circles. Although power has been a core concept of IRT for a long time, the faces and mechanisms of power as it relates to Chinese foreign policy making has reinvigorated and changed the contours of that debate. With the rise of China and other powers across the global political arena comes a new visibility for different kinds of encounters between states, particularly between China and other Global South states. These encounters are made more visible to IR scholars now because of the increasing influence and impact that rising powers are making in the international system. This book shows foreign policy encounters between rising powers and Global South states do not necessarily exhibit the same logics, behaviors, or investment strategies of Euro-American hegemons. Instead, they have distinctive features that require new theoretical frameworks for their analysis. Shaping the Future of Power probes the type of power mechanisms that build, diffuse, and project China's power in Africa. It is necessary to take into account the processes of knowledge production, social capital formation, and skills transfers in Chinese foreign policy toward African states to fully understand China's power building mechanisms. These elements are crucial for the relational power framework to capture both the material aspects and ideational people-centered aspects to power. By examining China's investments in human resource development programs for Africa, the book examines a vital, yet undertheorized, aspect of China's foreign policy making"--
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis Seite 161-185, Register
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Network-building in China-Africa relations : past and present
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Relationality, social capital, and the future of power
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Guanxi in military diplomacy and security trainings
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Guanxi in public diplomacy and trainings for journalists
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Guanxi in cultural diplomacy and Confucius Institutes
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Relational power beyond China-Africa.
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