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Political Trust and the Politics of Security Engagement: China and the European Union in Africa: Routledge Studies in African Politics and International Relations

Autor Benjamin Barton
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 12 dec 2019
The EU and China are often characterised as parties whose bilateral political differences still remain too large to bridge, so that they have failed to convert rhetorical promises into tangible results of cooperation, particularly with regards to the field of international security. Yet in terms of their bilateral interaction on security risk management in Africa; EU and Chinese naval officers jointly brought down the number of successful Somali pirate attacks in the Gulf of Aden and to a lesser extent were jointly involved in seeking a resolution to the lingering conflict in Darfur.


This book asks how we can make sense as a whole of this relatively sudden shift in regards to the dealings between their respective officials on the topic of security risk management. It argues that the outcomes of Sino-European bilateral dealings on this topic are above all determined by the ability/inability of these officials to build political trust as a complex and cognitive social phenomenon. Consequently, the book applies an innovative conceptual framework on political trust to explain why EU and Chinese officials bridged their ‘endemic’ political differences to practically cooperate on Somali piracy but were unable to do so when it came to their interaction on Darfur. To conclude, it examines the longer term impact of this bilateral trust-building process by covering more recent examples of bilateral engagement in Libya and Mali and aims to show that although this trust-building process may be case specific, ramifications may go beyond the realm of their bilateral dealings on security matters in Africa, to impact wider issues of international security.


This text will be of key interest to scholars and students of African and Chinese politics, EU politics, security and maritime studies, and more broadly of international relations and to governmental actors.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780367888893
ISBN-10: 0367888890
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Studies in African Politics and International Relations

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Cuprins

1. Contrasted Approaches to Security Management  2. The Concept of Political Trust in IR  3. The Rise of China’s Security Engagements in Africa  4. A Paradigmatic Change: China and the Darfur Conflict  5. China’s Shift from the Periphery to the Heart of Counter-piracy Efforts in the Horn of Africa  6. Failing Institutional Memories: Libya and Mali  7. Cognitive-based Trust as a Research Agenda

Notă biografică

Benjamin Barton is currently a Project Manager for a consultancy in Paris, France, and recently graduated with a joint Ph.D. in War Studies from King’s College London, UK, and the University of Hong Kong.

Descriere

The book argues that the outcomes of Sino-European bilateral dealings on security risk management in Africa are determined by the ability/inability of these officials to build political trust as a complex and cognitive social phenomenon.