The Sino-African Partnership: A Geopolitical Economy Approach

The Sino-African Partnership portrays with rigor and clarity the relationship between China and Africa by delving into the geopolitical, geo-economic, and sociocultural dynamics that underlie the extensive and deepening "South-South" cooperation between the two. The analysis highlights China's role in the partnership by underscoring its geo-strategy, multidimensional approach, and the nature of its power projection in a continent of nation-states with differing geo-strategic importance and resource endowments. Supported by a rich texture of recent historical, political, and economic insights and interactions between China and Africa reflecting established knowledge, the book also delves deep into the impact on China of globalization imperatives following the end of the Cold War and its focus on ideological rivalry. Graduate and undergraduate students, China-Africa scholars, and general readers interested in a new perspective on the relationship between the two entities will find this essential and interesting reading. It is a unique and multidimensional examination of bilateral and multilateral cooperation, relationships, and profound development in global politics between two significant developing actors. There are new insights in this study into China's power projection into Africa and the global reactions spawned by its many activities.

About the Author :
Earl Conteh-Morgan is a professor of international studies in the School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies at the University of South Florida. He is a former senior research fellow at the Norwegian Nobel Institute (Oslo). He has authored, co-authored, and co-edited several books and book chapters, as well as published several refereed articles in the Journal of Political and Military Sociology, Journal of Social Philosophy, International Journal of Peace Studies, and the Global Security and Intelligence Studies journal, among many others. He is currently researching state weakness and the onset of civil wars in Africa.

Review :
"This book offers one of the best analyses of the relations between China and Africa that I have read. Earl Conteh-Morgan presents a broad, comprehensive, and empirical examination of several dimensions of the relations between China, as a rising global power, and sub-Saharan African countries. Whereas most texts on 'China in Africa' focus on examining how China's presence on the sub-continent impacts political outcomes such as the quality of democracy, Conteh-Morgan's lucid argumentation goes beyond previous analytical parameters to identify the factors that have undergirded the relations between China and African countries during several eras dating back to the early independence period of the 1960s. The work discusses China's motivations in African countries and the reactions of rival global powers to China's presence in Africa. It also discusses how and why western states, such as the United States, engage differently with African countries than China and some of the effects of the varying styles and levels of engagement. The book is not only an analysis of China-Africa relations but an examination of political and socioeconomic globalization itself as rival global powers compete for new markets and ideological hegemony. College students and seasoned global analysts alike should find the book tremendously insightful in their quests to understand China's global presence. It is written in a clear and accessible style and chock full of excellent macroeconomic data that is bound to make this study one of the best additions to the scholarly literature on China-Africa relations for many years to come. If you have to read three books on the subject of China in Africa, read this text first. Conteh-Morgan has made an invaluable contribution to the subject matter!" --Fodei J. Batty, associate professor of political science, Quinnipiac University "In The Sino-African Partnership, Earl Conteh-Morgan offers a new and innovative framework for analyzing the emergent multifaceted milieu of China's relations with Africa. Significantly, the new framework brings to the fore the imperative of transcending the binary of depicting China as either an 'exploiter' in its relations with Africa or China as a 'humanitarian, ' which are currently the two dominant analytical prisms for examining Sino-African relations." --George Klay Kieh, Jr., professor of political science & former dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, University of West Georgia