The Political Economy of China’s Infrastructure Development in Africa

Capital, State Agency, Debt

von Tim Zajontz

338 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

This book sheds light on structural drivers that led to the Chinese omnipresence in African infrastructure markets and offers a strategic-relational approach to the study of African agency in Sino-African infrastructure encounters. Case studies cover the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA), Zambia’s road sector as well as Tanzania’s Bagamoyo port and Standard Gauge Railway. It is shown that African (state) agency in the infrastructure sector is contingent upon dynamic state-society relations and distinct political-economic contexts and constraints. The book problematises contradictions related to infrastructure debt, the emergence of Sino-African public-private partnerships and the intensifying geopolitics-cum-geoeconomics of infrastructure across Africa.

• Reihe: International Political Economy Series
• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Politik und Staat Internationale Beziehungen
• ISBN: 9783031444517
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 13.12.2024
• Größe: 21 x 14.8 cm
• Verlag: Springer International Publishing