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> Conference Announcement
>
> A 'Chinese Scramble'? The Politics of Contemporary China-Africa
> Relations
>
> 12-13 July 2006, Cambridge
>
> The geopolitical landscape of contemporary China-Africa relations
> has provoked wide media interest but China's deepening engagement
> with the African continent has been relatively neglected in
> academic and development policy circles. In particular, beyond
> narrow concerns of 'a Chinese scramble' or a 'new imperialism', the
> concrete ways in which different Chinese actors are operating in
> different parts of Africa, their political dynamics and
> implications for development, have yet to be explored in depth.
>
> This international conference will explore different strands of
> China's new relations with Africa. Combining insights from
> specialists in African and Chinese politics and foreign relations,
> and bridging these hitherto largely separate areas of study, it
> aims to produce an analytically rich and empirically grounded
> assessment of contemporary China-Africa relations and how these
> might develop. In doing so, it seeks to broaden the debate, enable
> African and Chinese perspectives to be aired and contribute toward
> establishing China-Africa relations as a research area.
>
> The conference will be of interest to diplomats, development policy
> makers, corporate actors, journalists, students and academics
> (especially IR, development studies, African politics and foreign
> relations, China's foreign relations). Panels will address:
>
> the international relations of China in Africa;
> the political economy of trade and resource extraction, including oil;
> the impact on development and the politics of development in Africa;
> case studies, including South Africa, Nigeria, Sudan, Angola, Cape
> Verde;
> China and African futures.
> Further information and to register, please email Daniel Large
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>

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