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Emerging Powers in Africa

A New Wave in the Relationship?

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Editors:
  1. Justin van der Merwe

    1. University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, South Africa

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  2. Ian Taylor

    1. University of St. Andrews, St Andrews, United Kingdom

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  3. Alexandra Arkhangelskaya

    1. Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

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  • Analyzes the impact of emerging powers in Africa
  • Compares the role played by these states to that of the BRICs and former colonial powers
  • Develops a theoretical framework for interpreting the actions of emerging powers in Africa

Part of the book series: International Political Economy Series (IPES)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. Seeing Through the MIST: New Contenders for the African Space?

    • Justin van der Merwe
    Pages 1-14

  3. Theoretical Directions and New Geographies: Space, Time and Accumulation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
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    2. Theorising Emerging Powers in Africa within the Western-Led System of Accumulation

      • Justin van der Merwe
      Pages 17-38

    3. The BRICS in Africa: Agents of Development?

      • Ian Taylor
      Pages 39-55

    4. Emerging Powers in the Southern Maritime Space

      • Raymond Steenkamp Fonseca
      Pages 57-74

  4. The BRICS in Africa

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75
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    2. Conceptualising the Dialectics of China’s Presence in Africa

      • Li Xing
      Pages 77-106

    3. Nehru’s Neoliberals: Draining or Aiding Africa?

      • Ian Taylor, Justin van der Merwe, Nicole Dodd
      Pages 107-128

    4. New Dynamics or Old Patterns? South–South Cooperation Between Brazil and Angola

      • Jurek Seifert
      Pages 129-157

    5. Guns and Poseurs: Russia Returns to Africa

      • Alexandra Arkhangelskaya, Nicole Dodd
      Pages 159-175

    6. South African Corporations in BRICS: New Waves of Entrepreneurial Thinking?

      • Nadine Wenzel
      Pages 177-197

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 261-268
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About this book

This empirically and theoretically grounded book provides insights into the ascendance of powers such as Turkey, South Korea and Indonesia and their relationship with Africa. Leading scholars present case studies from the BRICS and beyond to demonstrate the constantly evolving and complex character of these ties and their place in the global capitalist order. They also offer new theoretical insights, as well as theorisation of the spatio-temporal dynamics involved in processes of accumulation within the African space. Their contention is that, despite their supposed anti-imperialism, these emerging powers have become agents for continued uneven development. This innovative edited collection will appeal to students and scholars of international relations, political science, development studies, area studies, geography and economics.




Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, South Africa

    Justin van der Merwe

  • University of St. Andrews, St Andrews, United Kingdom

    Ian Taylor

  • Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

    Alexandra Arkhangelskaya

About the editors

Justin van der Merwe is Senior Researcher at the Centre for Military Studies of the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. 



Alexandra Arkhangelskaya is Researcher at the Centre for Southern African Studies of the Institute for African Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia. She is also Leading Researcher at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia. 


Ian Taylor is Professor in International Relations and African Political Economy at the University of St Andrews, UK, and also Chair Professor in the School of International Studies, Renmin University of China. He is Professor Extraordinary in Political Science at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. 



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