China in the Global South: Impact and Perceptions

This book examines the agency of Global South sub-national actors in their interactions with China, using a multidisciplinary approach and eleven case studies. It explores the impact of China's growing presence in the Global South on economic, political, and social aspects, and how citizens understand and interpret China's rise. The case studies provide a comprehensive picture of a complex and sometimes problematic process.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 288 pages
Publication date: 25 April 2023
Publisher: Springer Verlag, Singapore

This comprehensive book delves into the often overlooked agency of Global South sub-national actors in their interactions with China, employing a multidisciplinary approach and eleven case studies. Contributors examine China's presence in the Global South on a country-by-country basis, analyzing how various non-state and sub-state actors are responding to China's rise and whether they are attracted by the cooperation models China proposes or deterred by its newfound assertiveness. Contributions cover diverse and heterogeneous geographies of the Global South, ranging from Papua-New Guinea to Argentina and from Madagascar to the Russian Far East. By examining such diverse cases, contributors focus on two interrelated questions: What is the actual economic, political, and social impact of China's growing presence in the Global South? And, critically, how do the citizens of the Global South understand and interpret China's rise?

Taken together, the case studies paint a comprehensive picture of a complex and sometimes problematic process of China's inclusion into the economic, social, and political realities of the Global South. This book identifies and fills the gaps in the existing literature on China's rise by offering a nuanced perspective on China's relations with the countries of the Global South that captures such variables as social context, intersubjective meanings, and identities. By focusing on China's relations with the Global South, it also provides an important addition to the literature on international politics of development and China's role in the transformation of South-South cooperation.

Weight: 456g
Dimension: 235 x 155 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9789811913464
Edition number: 1st ed. 2022