A challenge to conventional wisdom: locating agency in Angola’s and Ghana’s economic engagements with China

Chipaike, Ronald; Bischoff, Paul, 1954-

Title: A challenge to conventional wisdom: locating agency in Angola’s and Ghana’s economic engagements with China
Creator: Chipaike, Ronald
Creator: Bischoff, Paul, 1954-
Date Issued: 2018
Date: 2018
Type: text
Type: article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/161537
Identifier: vital:40636
Identifier: https://0-doi.org.wam.seals.ac.za/10.1177/00219096187639223
Description: This article makes the point that African states with significant strategic resources and democratic governance systems bargain better in economic and development assistance engagements with China and other partners. In democratic African states, non-state actors play critical complementary roles to the state, leading to multi-faceted forms of African agency. For non-democratic states, a significant limiting factor in their agency is the lack of working relationships between the state and non-state actors. Concomitantly, such states find themselves with weak bargaining and negotiating capacities. If African agency is to be assertive, then state and non-state actors should work together when engaging external partners.
Format: 16 pages
Format: pdf
Language: English
Relation: Journal of Asian and African Studies
Relation: Chipaike, R. and Bischoff, P.H., 2018. A challenge to conventional wisdom: locating agency in Angola’s and Ghana’s economic engagements with China. Journal of Asian and African Studies, 53(7), pp.1002-1017
Relation: Journal of Asian and African Studies volume 53 number 7 1002 1017 March 2018 1745-2538
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