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Emerging Powers in Africa (IDEAS Special Reports) by [Alden, Chris, Alves, Ana Cristina, Arkhangelskaya, Alexandra, Chun, Zhang, Kim, Soyeun, Large, Daniel, Ozkan, Mehmet, Shubin, Vladimir]

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Emerging powers are playing an increasingly consequential role in Africa, and are set to deepen their impact upon political, economic and security dynamics across the continent in coming years. In many respects this is an expression of wider global trends characterised by the shifting balance of wealth and power away from the US and Europe to the rapidly growing economies. In Africa, the impact of these emerging – or in some cases, re-emerging – actors is becoming more substantial and more complex almost by the day.

Emerging powers are bringing financial capital, business acumen and new models of development and diplomacy to the continent. In doing so they see in Africa a resource partner, an export market, and a relatively uninhabited geopolitical space in which they can leverage their growing influence. Assessing this dynamic is crucial to developing an understanding of Africa’s growing importance in the global supply chain, its growing relevance as a market and its centrality to the new international order in the making.

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Publisher: LSE IDEAS; SR016 edition (June 17, 2013)
Publication Date: June 17, 2013
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Advanced developing nations and Africa

By ewaffle on April 25, 2015

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This is an intriguing book--actually a set of short essays by academics, edited by a LSE prof. The "emerging powers" are the usual suspects--China, Russia, India, Brazil--plus a few that didn't come to mind immediately, Turkey and South Korea. Its value lies in coverage of those countries involved in Africa that are neither China nor a former colonial power since both of those groups have and will continue to have huge stacks of books devoted to their activity in Africa. A dialectical approach works for most of the authors: the country they are covering is not China and doesn't act like China. The divergence from the Middle Kingdom means that they are preferable to China, as long as one thinks that China is only interested in strip mining the entire continent.

But the most important difference between aid and trade in Africa from emerging powers and the more traditional western nations (the Global North) including the IMF, the World Bank, big NGOs as well as governments themselves is that nations like Brazil, Turkey and India can approach their African counterparts as equals or at least not from a position of dictating what the recipient nations can do with loans, investments and aid. All of the emerging countries are both recipients and donors of official development assistance (ODA). They contribute grants, technology transfers, commodity financing to African nations and receive it from the Global North although with different purposes in mind.

Brazil, for example, is less interested in exploiting hydrocarbon reserves and mineral deposits for their own consumption than as an expanding ground for their existing operations.Read more ›

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