Africa-China Cooperation: Towards an African Policy on China

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1 Huiping Chen, ‘China’s ‘One Belt, One Road’ Initiative and its Implications for Sino-African Investment Relations,’ Transnational Corporations Review 8, no. 3 (2016): 178–182; Willie D. Ganda, ‘The China Model in Zimbabwe: The Belt and Road Initiative and Beyond,’ Politics and Policy 48, no. 5 (2020): 932–959; Xiao Han and Michael Webber, ‘From Chinese Dam Building in Africa to the Belt and Road Initiative: Assembling Infrastructure Projects and their Linkages,’ Political Geography 77 (2020): 1–12.

2 Lina Benabdallah, ‘Contesting the International Order by Integrating it: The Case of China’s Belt and Road Initiative,’ Third World Quarterly 40, no. 1 (2019): 92–108; Christine Hackenesch and Julia Bader, ‘The Struggle for Minds and Influence: The Chinese Communist Party’s Global Outreach’ International Studies Quarterly 64, no. 3 (2020): 723–733; Obert Hodzi, ‘African Political Elites and the Making(s) of the China Model in Africa,’ Politics & Policy 48, no. 5 (2020): 887–907.

3 Giles Mohan and Ben Lampert, ‘Negotiating China: Reinserting African Agency into China-Africa Relations,’ African Affairs 112, no. 446 (2013): 92–110; Brendan Vickers, ‘Africa and the Rising Powers: Bargaining for the “Marginalized Many,”’ International Affairs 89, no. 3 (2013): 673–693.

4 A notable recent exception is Folashadé Soulé, ‘“Africa+1” Summit Diplomacy and the “New Scramble” Narrative: Recentreing African Agency,’ African Affairs 119, no. 477 (2020): 633–646.

5 James J. Hentz, Fredrik Söderbaum and Rodrigo Tavares, ‘Regional Organizations and African Security: Moving the Debate Forward,’ African Security 2, no. 2–3 (2009): 206–217; Tim Zajontz and Anthony Leysens, ‘Regionalism Revised: A Critical-Reflectivist Framework for Engaging the Changing Nature of Developing Regionalisms in Africa,’ Politikon 42, no. 3 (2015): 299–323; K Isaac Weldesellassie, ‘IGAD as an International Organization, Its Institutional Development and Shortcomings,’ Journal of African Law 55, no. 1 (2011): 1–29.

6 Redie Bereketeab, ‘Regional Economic Communities and Peacebuilding: The IGAD Experience,’ South African Journal of International Affairs 26, no. 1 (2019): 137–156; Harrie Willie Esterhuyse, Daouda Cissé, Anthony Ross and Meryl Burgess, ‘African Regional Economic Communities’ Engagement with China’ (SUCCS Policy Briefing, September 2014), http://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/99143; Hassan A Saliu and Segun Oshewolo, ‘Nigeria in African Affairs: Hegemonic and Altruistic Considerations,’ The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs 107, no. 3 (2018): 291–305.

7 Ingo Henneberg and Friedrich Plank, ‘Overlapping Regionalism and Security Cooperation: Power-Based Explanations of Nigeria’s Forum-Shopping in the Fight against Boko Haram’ International Studies Review 22, no. 3 (2020): 576–599; Wafula Okumu, ‘The African Union: Pitfalls and Prospects for Uniting Africa,’ Journal of International Affairs 62, no. 2 (2009): 93–111.

8 Veit Bachmann and James D. Sidaway, ‘African Regional Integration and European Involvement: External Agents in the East African Community,’ South African Geographical Journal 92, no. 1 (2010): 1–6; Gilbert M. Khadiagala, ‘Regionalism and Conflict Resolution: Lessons from the Kenyan Crisis,’ Journal of Contemporary African Studies 27, no. 3 (2009): 431–444.