TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shinn,David Hamilton
AU  - Eisenman,Joshua
TI  - China's relations with Africa: a new era of strategic engagement 
SN  - 9780231210003
AV  - DT38.9.C5 S556 2023
U1  - 327.5106 23/eng/20221021
PY  - 2023///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - Security, International
KW  - Geopolitics
KW  - China
KW  - Foreign relations
KW  - Africa
KW  - Strategic aspects
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Locating Africa in China's geostrategy --  Bilateral and global relations -- Regional and subregional relations --  Party-to-party relations --  Africa-focused propaganda -- Security strategy and interests -- Protecting interests and managing conflict -- Security diplomacy -- Maritime security -- Technological and informational security -- Projecting trends in China-Africa strategic relations
N2  - "China's Relations with Africa is a timely intervention that covers the breadth of contemporary Sino-African political and security relations and offers a theory-driven explanation for where those elements fit in China's larger geostrategy. To date, most Western scholarship and popular accounts of China-Africa relations have focused on various aspects of Beijing's trade and development financing on the continent. China's political and security relations with Africa, to the extent they are examined at all, are generally cast in the context of U.S.-China rivalry and/or a renewed "great game" in Africa taking place among several nations, including France, India, Japan, and Russia. This book not only explains the specific tactics and methods that Beijing uses to build its political and security relations with African nations and political actors, but also places those engagements in the context of China's larger geostrategy towards the developing world"--
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