China's Economic Engagement in Africa

This book analyzes the growing influence of China in Angola. Cooperation of China and Angola in the core economic areas has started with a relationship based on interdependency in which both sides stand on mutual economic and political necessities. China has got a chance to increase its leverage against the USA through its attractive loan offers and principles of non-interference in domestic policies.

This book analyzes the growing influence of China in Angola. The author answers the question how and in what extent China has gained influence over the economic development of Angola since the end of the civil war in 2002. She presents the economic facilities of China in Angola from trade and investment to business transactions in the context of Andrew Moravcsik's Commercial Liberalism Theory. To measure the extension of China's economic influence through its way of investment (Angola-Mode) and a «no strings attached»-policy, not only the economic interdependent relations between China and Angola have become the focus of this far-reaching book. The author also discusses a process of gradual change of the relations of two rival powers China and the USA with Angola.

Autorentext

Sezgi Cemiloglu completed her PhD at the Center for Global Studies (CGS), University of Bonn. She studied International Relations at Hacettepe University in Ankara and China Studies at National Cheng-chi University in Taipei.

Inhalt
Contents: Angola-Mode (exchange of natural resources for infrastructures) as an indicator of economic interdependence and a facilitating factor for trade Oil and infrastructure contracts The impacts of the bilateral economic relations on Angola's preferences and its traditional economic partners.