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Globalization and Regionalism in Africa
In: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics
"Globalization and Regionalism in Africa" published on by Oxford University Press.
Congo's environmental paradox: potential and predation in a land of plenty
In: International affairs, Band 93, Heft 3, S. 735-737
ISSN: 1468-2346
Africa-to-Africa internationalization: Key issues and outcomes
In: South African journal of international affairs: journal of the South African Institute of International Affairs, Band 24, Heft 2, S. 266-267
ISSN: 1938-0275
The changing dynamics of international business in Africa
In: South African journal of international affairs: journal of the South African Institute of International Affairs, Band 23, Heft 2, S. 254-255
ISSN: 1938-0275
Displacement Economies in Africa: Paradoxes of Crisis and Creativity
In: Journal of borderlands studies, Band 32, Heft 2, S. 271-272
ISSN: 2159-1229
Assembling effective industrial policy in Africa: an agenda for action
In: Review of African political economy, Band 44, Heft 152, S. 336-345
ISSN: 1740-1720
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The BRICS' impacts on local economic development in the Global South: the cases of a tourism town and two mining provinces in Zambia
In: Area development and policy: journal of the Regional Studies Association, Band 1, Heft 2, S. 218-237
ISSN: 2379-2957
Globalization, Land Grabbing, and the Present-Day Colonial State in Uganda: Ecolonization and Its Impacts
In: The journal of environment & development: a review of international policy, Band 25, Heft 1, S. 100-126
ISSN: 1552-5465
Much has been written recently about the nature, drivers, and impacts of large-scale land acquisitions or "grabbing" in Africa. We argue that current land grabs are a product of ecological scarcity and the opportunities this presents for accumulation and logics of state building. In effect, land grabs represent a reinscription and deepening of sociospatial power inequalities associated with previous eras. Together we term these combined processes ecolonization, as discourses of climate change mitigation and food and energy security facilitate continued and deepening domination of ecological space by domestic political elites and transnational investors, through the United Nations' Reduction of Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation and enhance forest carbon stocks projects, for example. The new internal frontiers opened up by processes of capital accumulation are, in turn, fundamental to the reproduction and strengthening of colonial African state formations. Land dispossession thus serves hybrid economic accumulation and political logics across different scales and temporalities. The ways in which these processes are empirically expressed is explored through two case studies from Uganda.
Power Plays and Balancing Acts: The Paradoxical Effects of Chinese Trade on African Foreign Policy Positions
In: Political studies: the journal of the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom, Band 68, Heft 1, S. 224-246
ISSN: 1467-9248
There has been substantial focus on China's influence in Africa in recent years. Some argue that China's growing economic ties with African states have increased its political influence across the continent. This article examines whether trade with China leads African states to adopt more similar foreign policy preferences to China in the United Nations. We examine foreign policy similarity using voting patterns in the United Nations General Assembly and country statements in the United Nations General Debate. The analysis demonstrates that more trade with China has paradoxical effects on foreign policy positions of African states—it leads them to align more closely with US foreign policy positions in the United Nations, except on human rights votes. Our findings suggest that African states are engaged in balancing behavior with external powers whereby African elites seek to play off rival powers against one another in order to strengthen their own autonomy and maximize trade.
Trumping development: selective delinking and coercive governmentality in US–Africa relations
In: Africa today, Band 66, Heft 1, S. 3-26
ISSN: 1527-1978
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