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China's rise to global power status in recent decades has been
accompanied by deepening economic relationships with Africa, with
the New Silk Road's extension to Sub-Saharan Africa as the latest
step, leading to much academic debate about the influence of
Chinese business in the continent. However, China's engagement with
African states at the political and diplomatic level has received
less attention in the literature. This book investigates the impact
of Chinese policies on African politics, asking how China deals
with political instability in Africa and in turn how Africans
perceive China to be helping or hindering political stability.
While China officially operates with a foreign policy strategy
which conceives of Africa as one integrated monolithic area (with
the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) the flagship of
inter-continental cooperation), this book highlights the plurality
of context-specific interaction patterns between China and African
elites, demonstrating how China's role and relevance has
differently evolved according to whether African countries are
resource-rich and geostrategically important from the Chinese
perspective or not. By looking comparatively at a range of
different country cases, the book aims to promote a more thorough
understanding of how China reacts to political stability and
instability, and in which ways the country contributes to domestic
political dynamics and stability within African states. China's New
Role in African Politics will be of interest to researchers from
across Political Science, International Relations, International
Law and Economy, Security Studies, and African and Chinese Studies.
China's rise to global power status in recent decades has been
accompanied by deepening economic relationships with Africa, with
the New Silk Road's extension to Sub-Saharan Africa as the latest
step, leading to much academic debate about the influence of
Chinese business in the continent. However, China's engagement with
African states at the political and diplomatic level has received
less attention in the literature. This book investigates the impact
of Chinese policies on African politics, asking how China deals
with political instability in Africa and in turn how Africans
perceive China to be helping or hindering political stability.
While China officially operates with a foreign policy strategy
which conceives of Africa as one integrated monolithic area (with
the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) the flagship of
inter-continental cooperation), this book highlights the plurality
of context-specific interaction patterns between China and African
elites, demonstrating how China's role and relevance has
differently evolved according to whether African countries are
resource-rich and geostrategically important from the Chinese
perspective or not. By looking comparatively at a range of
different country cases, the book aims to promote a more thorough
understanding of how China reacts to political stability and
instability, and in which ways the country contributes to domestic
political dynamics and stability within African states. China's New
Role in African Politics will be of interest to researchers from
across Political Science, International Relations, International
Law and Economy, Security Studies, and African and Chinese Studies.
Die vorliegende Studie unternimmt eine systematische
Aufarbeitung der chinesischen Diskurse zu Governance und ihren
Teilkategorien Legitimitat, Effektivitat sowie Partizipation. Diese
chinesischen Governance-Konzeptionen illustrieren, dass die VR
China nicht als monolithisches und dogmatisch erstarrtes, sondern
als ein sich dynamisch wandelndes und lernfahiges System eingestuft
werden sollte. Adaptionsfahigkeit und pragmatische Flexibilitat
pragen die Ausgestaltung der chinesischen Politik - unter Ruckgriff
auf Elemente der traditionellen chinesischen Staatsphilosophie und
auf die politische Praxis der VR China seit 1949 wird ein
Entwicklungs- Modell" konzipiert und praktiziert, das
moglicherweise auch von anderen Hybridregimen als
Orientierungsmodell herangezogen werden konnte."
In Narratives in East Asia and Beyond: An Interdisciplinary
Perspective on Using Narratives as a Research Method, contributors
from diverse fields jointly argue for the interdisciplinary appeal
of using narratives as a research method. Scholars from the fields
of philosophy of narrative, ethnographic research, linguistics,
political sciences, international relations, and area studies
reflect on how to approach, understand, and utilize narratives to
comprehend social structures and interactions. The volume attempts
to reflect on a range of questions, including: How can narrative
studies broaden and deepen the scope of research in other fields?
What connections exist between narratives and identities
(individual and collective)? How does analyzing narratives help us
better understand the dynamics of the policy change and the
perceptions of self and other? The essays range from reflections on
the role of narrativity in cognitive processes, interview settings,
and in constructing historical memories to the analysis of narrator
and audience perspectives on the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative,
evaluations of roles and legitimation strategies, as well as
interpretations of documentary films. The authors show the
flexibility and fruitfulness of incorporating narratives into
research agendas in a wide range of disciplines and highlight the
theoretical and empirical research benefits that narrative studies
open up.
State-society relations and governance are closely related areas of
study and have become important topics in the social sciences in
the past decades, not only in developed countries but also in the
developing world. In China, state-society relations have been
changing in the new era of reform and opening, and governance has
become a central concern in policy practice and in academia. In
this wide-ranging collection of essays, written by scholars from
both inside and outside China, the contributors explore the
complexity of the changing state-society relationship and the modes
and practices of governance in China by combining theoretical
exploration and empirical case studies.
This edited volume assesses governance innovation and institutional
change under the fifth generation of China's political leaders
headed by Xi Jinping. The configuration of long-term policy
innovation without regime change requires skilled political actors
who secure strategic majorities and set up coalitions to design and
launch new policies. Recalibrations or reconfigurations of the
governance model respond to domestic reform pressures or external
shocks in order to secure regime survival. Given that most
structural constraints and reform pressures do not arise out of a
sudden, the thrilling question is why the political elites
sometimes decide not to engage in institutional reforms despite of
widespread societal support for major restructuring and why they
suddenly launch institutional changes in times of relative
stability. The authors address these issues by focusing on basic
patterns and paradigms of governance and institutional change in
China, the actors and drivers of governance innovation, as well as
the impact of norms, values, and socio-cognitive orientations. This
is added by some reflections on the interplay between abstract
ideas, reform debates, and the making of concrete decisions as
outlined by the Third Plenum on (socio-)economic reforms in 2013
and the Fourth Plenum on rule-based governance (fazhi) in 2014.
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