CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2007
| Author | Raguckaja, Grazina |
|---|---|
| Title | What is the dragon looking for in the tropics?China's contemporary trade and investment relations with Africa |
| Summary | The present study focuses on the issue of intensification of contemporary Sino-African economic linkages from the Chinese perspective. More precisely, it investigates the reasons of China’s recent emergence in Africa as a major investor and trade partner, and how this course of action fits into general Beijing’s foreign policy agenda towards the African countries. The study argues that China’s current foreign policy as with regard to Africa is primarily shaped by Beijing’s economic interests, especially by the occurrence of China’s oil dependency that endangers the sustenance of the heavy-industry based economic growth of China. Therefore China’s foreign policy towards Africa serves for the purpose of its economy and that constitutes a divergence from the classical Stalinist-Maoist approach that regards the material wealth as “moral sin”. China’s relations with Sudan are used to illustrate the dominance of the economic concerns over ideology in the China’s foreign policy towards Africa. |
| Supervisor | Csaba Laszlo |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2007/raguckaja_grazina.pdf |
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