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Aid donor meets strategic partner? The European Union's and China's relations with Ethiopia
Hilfeanbieter trifft strategischen Partner? Die Beziehungen der EU und Chinas zu Äthiopien
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Abstract The motives, instruments and effects of China’s Africa policy have spurred a lively
debate in European development policy circles. This paper assesses the “competitive
pressure” that China’s growing presence in Africa exerts on the European development
policy regime. Drawing on ... view more
The motives, instruments and effects of China’s Africa policy have spurred a lively
debate in European development policy circles. This paper assesses the “competitive
pressure” that China’s growing presence in Africa exerts on the European development
policy regime. Drawing on a large number of interviews conducted in China, Ethiopia
and Europe between 2008 and 2011, the paper analyses Ethiopia as a case study. Ethiopia
has emerged as one of the most important countries in Chinese as well as European
cooperation with Africa. Yet, Chinese and European policies toward Ethiopia differ
greatly. The EU mainly engages Ethiopia as an aid recipient, whereas China has developed
a comprehensive political and economic partnership with the East African state. China
has thereby become an alternative partner to the Ethiopian government, a development
that both sheds light on the gap between European rhetoric and policy practice and
puts pressure on the EU to make more efforts to reform its development policy system.... view less
Keywords
EU; EU policy; China; Ethiopia; promotion of development; development aid; development aid policy; cooperation; strategy; international relations; Far East; East Africa
Classification
Sociology of Developing Countries, Developmental Sociology
International Relations, International Politics, Foreign Affairs, Development Policy
Method
applied research; descriptive study; empirical; quantitative empirical
Document language
English
Publication Year
2013
Page/Pages
p. 7-36
Journal
Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, 42 (2013) 1
Issue topic
Chinese impacts and impacting China
ISSN
1868-4874
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works