Theodor Tudoroiu

The Myth of China's No Strings Attached Development Assistance (eBook, PDF)

A Caribbean Case Study

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Using a Caribbean case study and a Constructivist theoretical approach, The Myth of China's No Strings Attached Development Assistance shows that the frequently mentioned "no strings attached" nature of China's development assistance to its partners in the Global South is nothing more than a myth. This claim is supported by empirical data from Trinidad and Tobago and by comparisons with similar situations in Africa and Latin America. On their basis, the authors propose a critical re-reading of a reality that many scholars are accustomed to watch through the reassuring but distorting lens of academic routine. Despite contrary claims in the literature, Beijing's development assistance to the Commonwealth Caribbean states is accompanied by clear political, economic, and social conditionalities. Through them, China is constructing a cognitive and normative space conducive to a new regional order that should be politically friendly, economically profitable, and socially open to its government, companies, and citizens.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. November 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978774544
• Artikelnr.: 74847604

Autorenporträt

Theodor Tudoroiu is senior lecturer at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine.

Amanda Ramlogan-Gangabissoon is doctoral student at the Institute of International Relations of the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Conditionality and Socialization 3. China's Mixed Record
in the Global South 4. China's Political Conditionality 5. China's Economic
Conditionality 6. China's Social Conditionality 7. Too Early for
Conditionality: the Geopolitical Dimension 8. Analysis and Conclusion