The New Scramble for Africa [2nd ed.] 9781509507085, 1509507086

Table of contents :
1. The New Scramble, Geography and Development
Geography and Development in Africa
The Inequality of Geography or the Geography of Inequality?
Making Distance: The Construction of Markets and Commodity ‘Chains’
The Political Economy of Inequality, Poverty and Conflict in Africa
2. Old Economic Power Interests and Strategies in Africa
Britain in Africa: Markets, Development and Security
French Interests: From Neo-Colonialism to Rapprochement with the US
European Union Interests in Africa: Globalizing Markets
United States Interests in Africa: Oil (and) Security
Japanese Interests in Africa
South African Interests in Africa: Minerals, Mobiles and Marketizing Governance
3. Chinese Interests and Strategies in Africa
‘Going Out’ with China: The Impacts of Dual Economic Reform on Sino-African Relations
China's Resource Diplomacy in Africa
‘Soft Power’ or Flexigemony? Strategy for an Emerging Presence in Africa
China and Sudan: Obstruction, but also Evolution
A Change in China's Position?
Chinese Flexipower and Its Limits: The Zambian Case
The Evolution of China's Africa Policy
Reflections on China's African Resource Diplomacy
4. Other New Economic Power Interests and Relations with Africa
Indian Interests and Strategies
Indian Trade and Investment in Africa
Resource Access
Other Economic Sectors and Legacy of Migration
Indian Overseas Assistance to Africa
The Geopolitics of Indian Economic Engagement
Brazil's Relations with and Interest in Africa
Other Emerging Power Interests
5. Driving the Global Economy: West African and Sahelian Oil
The Scale of Oil Company Investment in Africa and Impacts
Oiling the Wheels of Repression: Equatorial Guinea
Corruption, Inequality, Wealth and Poverty: The Impacts of Oil in Angola
6. The Scramble for Land: The Ugandan Case
Ecolonization and African Land
(Trans)National Biopower and Land
Methodology
Land Grabbing in Uganda
Bugala Island Case
North-Eastern Case
7. Powering and Connecting the Global Economy through Conflict: Uranium and Coltan
Uranium and (in)Security in the Sahel
Oil, (in)Security and Uranium in Niger: A Volatile Mix
Conflict and Coltan in the Congo: War in the Great Lakes
8. Furnishing and Feeding the World? Timber, Biofuels, Plants, Food and Fisheries
Fuelling Dispossession? Biofuels
Water Is Life? Food, Flowers and Fuel for Whom?
The Timber Trade
The African Fish Rush: Protein and Piracy
Biopiracy
9. The Asian Scramble for Investment and Markets: Evidence and Impacts in Zambia
Chinese and Indian Investment in Zambia: History and Context
Nature and Impacts of Asian-Owned Businesses
Developmental Impacts of Asian Investment
The Impacts of the ‘Great’ Recession and the Chinese Economic Slowdown on Sino-Zambian Relations
10. Can Africans Unscramble the Continent?
Scrambling to Conflict or Democracy? The United States and China in Africa
Chinese Power and African Political Economy
Power, Development and Economic Structure
Conclusion: The New Scramble in Perspective

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