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Record Nr.

UNINA9910272346203321

Autore

Hackenesch Christine

Titolo

The EU and China in African Authoritarian Regimes [[electronic resource] ] : Domestic Politics and Governance Reforms / / by Christine Hackenesch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basingstoke, : Springer Nature, 2018

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018

ISBN

3-319-63591-3

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XVI, 261 p. 25 illus.)

Collana

Governance and Limited Statehood

Disciplina

338.9

Soggetti

Political economy

Economic development

European Union

Europe—Economic conditions

Asia—Economic conditions

Africa—Economic conditions

International Political Economy

Development Studies

European Union Politics

European Economics

Asian Economics

African Economics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The Initial Puzzle: Why governments in dominant party systems engage with the EU on good governance reform, or not -- Chapter 3. Rwanda -- Chapter 4. Ethiopia -- Chapter 5 -- Angola -- Chapter 6. Conclusions. .

Sommario/riassunto

This open access book analyses the domestic politics of African dominant party regimes, most notably African governments’ survival strategies, to explain their variance of opinions and responses towards the reforming policies of the EU. The author discredits the widespread



assumption that the growing presence of China in Africa has made the EU’s task of supporting governance reforms difficult, positing that the EU’s good governance strategies resonate better with the survival strategies of governments in some dominant party regimes more so than others, regardless of Chinese involvement. Hackenesch studies three African nations – Angola, Ethiopia and Rwanda – which all began engaging with the EU on governance reforms in the early 2000s. She argues that other factors generally identified in the literature, such as the EU’s good governance strategies or economic dependence of the target country on the EU, have set additional incentives for African governments to not engage on governance reforms. .