China's Rise in Africa

Ian Taylor is Professor at the University of St Andrews and University of Stellenbosch.Dominik Kopiński is Assistant Professor at the Institute of International Studies, University of Wrocław, Poland. Andrzej Polus is Assistant Professor at the Institute of International Studies, University of Wrocław, Poland.

• 1. Contextualising Chinese engagement in Africa Dominik Kopinski, Andrzej Polus and Ian Taylor 2. From refusal to engagement: Chinese contributions to peacekeeping in Africa Wu Zhengyu and Ian Taylor 3. The ‘voracious dragon’, the ‘scramble’ and the ‘honey pot’: Conceptions of conflict over Africa’s natural resources Péter Marton and Tamás Matura 4. Uneasy allies: China’s evolving relations with Angola Lucy Corkin 5. Sino-Zambian relations: ‘An all-weather friendship’ weathering the storm Dominik Kopiński and Andrzej Polus 6. Sino-Indian co-operation in Africa: Joint efforts in the oil sector Karolina Wysoczanska 7. The European Union and China’s rise in Africa: Competing visions, external coherence and trilateral cooperation Maurizio Carbone 8. China’s ‘soft power’ in Africa? Łukasz Fijałkowski