Globalization in Africa : Recolonization or Renaissance?


Pádraig. Carmody
Bok Engelsk 2010 · Electronic books.
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Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , 2010.
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1 online resource (208 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.. - ""Book Title""; ""Table of Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1-Introduction""; ""Notes""; ""2-Chinese and US Interests in Africa""; ""Resource Colonialist and Anti-imperialist? Chinese Interests and Involvement in Africa""; ""China�s Geoeconomic Strategy for Africa""; ""A Benevolent Hegemon? Chinese Soft Power in Africa""; ""Free-Trade Imperialism or South-South Cooperation? The Economic Impacts of China""; ""Leviathans Unbound? The Impact of Chinese Involvement on African State Restructuring"". - ""5-Overcoming the Resource Curse: The Zambian Case""""The Zambian Context""; ""Asian Drivers and the Zambian Economy""; ""Regional Factors: South Africa, the DRC, and the “Zimbabwe Dividend�""; ""“Dead Capital Come to Life�: Liberalization, Domestic Class Formation, and Foreign Ownership in the Zambian Economy""; ""Back to the Future?""; ""Notes""; ""6-The Mobile Phone Revolution""; ""The Information Revolution and the Mobile Value Chain""; ""Mobile Africa and the Coltan Connection""; ""Mobile Phone Penetration, Usage, and Social Impacts in Africa"". - ""Economic and Business Impacts of Mobile Phones""""Globalization, Mobiles, and African Society: M-perialism?""; ""Notes""; ""7-Global Turbulence and African Growth""; ""Impacts of the Crisis on Asian Aid, Trade, and Investment""; ""The United States, China, and Prospects for African Development""; ""Notes""; ""Acronyms""; ""References""; ""Index""; ""About the Book"". - ""From Indirect Rule and Apathetic Hegemony to Panopticism? US Interests and Involvement in Africa""""Notes""; ""3-The Commodity Boom""; ""From Lost Continent to Revival?""; ""The New Interregionalism: The Asian Connection""; ""The Global Context and Africa�s Growth: Growth, Technology, and Debt Relief""; ""Bestriding the Continent Like a Colossus or a Lilliputian? South Africa�s Regional Economic Impact""; ""National Factors: Good Governance""; ""New Wine in Old Bottles? Impacts of the Commodity Boom""; ""Environmental and Sociopolitical Impacts of the Resource Boom"". - ""Impacts of the Resource Boom on African Manufacturing""""Notes""; ""4-The Scramble for Oil: Insights from Chad and Sudan""; ""Globalization and Cruciform Sovereignty""; ""Governing Exclusion, Coercing Consent: The Matrix""; ""Governance Curses? Resources and the Transnational Contract of Extraversion in Africa""; ""The Matrix Reloaded: Violent Governance and Militarization in Africa""; ""The Geopolitics of Poverty Reduction and Conflict in Africa: The Chad-Cameroon and Sudanese Oil Pipelines""; ""The Matrix Unloaded? China�s Governance Impact""; ""Notes""
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