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Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Acronyms -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- 1.1 EU Good Governance Strategies Face Two Challenges: The Predominance of African Dominant Party Systems and China's Rise in Africa -- EU Good Governance Strategies in Sub-Saharan Africa -- The 'New Authoritarianism' in Africa: Dominant Party Systems -- China's Rise in Africa -- 1.2 Different Parts of the Same Elephant? Researching EU Good Governance Strategies and China's Engagement in Africa -- Why Should We Focus on African Governments' Strategies? -- 1.3 Why Angola, Ethiopia and Rwanda? -- Three Dominant Party Regimes -- In a Nutshell: Angola's, Ethiopia's and Rwanda's Responsiveness -- 1.4 Structure of the Book -- Chapter 2: The Initial Puzzle: Why Governments in Dominant Party Systems Engage with the EU on Good Governance Reform, or Not -- 2.1 The EU's Strategies to Promote Governance Reforms -- The EU's Approach: Content and Channels -- The EU's Instruments: Cooperative or Confrontational Strategy? -- 2.2 African Governments' Responsiveness -- Interaction Effects: EU Good Governance Strategies and African Governments' Responsiveness -- 2.3 Survival Strategies of Governments in Dominant party Regimes -- Survival Strategies -- The Foundation of Political Survival: Strengthening the Party or the State -- Managing Political Survival: Effectively Controlling Arenas of Contestation Such as Elections, Parliaments and Courts -- Managing Political Survival: Opening and Closing Political Spaces -- Structural and Situational Factors That Impact on the Choice of Survival Strategies -- EU Good Governance Strategies Meet Dominant Party Regimes -- Building Effective States -- Managing Arenas of Political Contestation -- Opening or Closing Political Spaces -- 2.4 African Economic Dependence on the EU.

Political science; EU; China; Africa; Rwanda; Ethiopia; Angola; Survival strategy; Governance; Reform; Economic dependence; Paul Kagame; 2005 Ethiopian general election; African oil revenues; Authoritarian regimes; Party regimes

"Aid, Political Conditionality, and Other International Efforts to Support Democracy in Africa" published on by Oxford University Press.

Political science; EU; China; Africa; Rwanda; Ethiopia; Angola; Survival strategy; Governance; Reform; Economic dependence; Paul Kagame; 2005 Ethiopian general election; African oil revenues; Authoritarian regimes; Party regimes

The motives, instruments and effects of China's Africa policy have spurred a lively debate in European development policy circles. This paper assesses the "competitive pressure" that China's growing presence in Africa exerts on the European development policy regime. Drawing on a large number of interviews conducted in China, Ethiopia and Europe between 2008 and 2011, the paper analyses Ethiopia as a case study. Ethiopia has emerged as one of the most important countries in Chinese as well as European cooperation with Africa. Yet, Chinese and European policies toward Ethiopia differ greatly. The EU mainly engages Ethiopia as an aid recipient, whereas China has developed a comprehensive political and economic partnership with the East African state. China has thereby become an alternative partner to the Ethiopian government, a development that both sheds light on the gap between European rhetoric and policy practice and puts pressure on the EU to make more efforts to reform its development policy system. (JCCA/GIGA)