Margins of Autonomy in the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative: Negotiating Growth in Rural Angola

Brad Safarik ()
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Brad Safarik: Catholic University of the West

Chapter Chapter 3 in New Nationalisms and China's Belt and Road Initiative, 2022, pp 25-40 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The historical conjuncture forming in the early 2000s offered Angolan authorities a unique opportunity to mostly bypass the waning influence of the imposed structural adjustment programmes and dilute the loan conditions imposed by Western donor countries and institutions. At the same time that analysts were debating the different phases of democratic transitions in Africa, China arrived with resources that offered Angola an entirely different path. As a result, an authoritarian hybrid regime consolidated, ultimately ceding little control over the mechanisms of its state-building agenda. An illiberal, neo-modernist model was effectively deployed with few tools put in place to ensure efficiency, feasibility, or proper maintenance. Based on months of fieldwork in 2017, semi-direct interviews, discussions, and an extensive reading of grey literature pertaining to Angola’s political economy, this paper explores the myriad external forces and influences that weighed on Angola’s government as it emerged from its long civil war and sought its own vision of reconstruction.

Keywords: Margins; Autonomy; Negotiation; Rural economy; Military regime; Diplomacy; Economic growth; Agriculture (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-08526-0_3

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