The Railpolitik: Leadership and Agency in Sino-African Infrastructure Development 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780198873037,0198873034,9780198873051, 0198873050

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• ISBN-10: 0198873050
• ISBN-13: 9780198873051
• Author: Yuan Wang

The Railpolitik: Leadership and Agency in Sino-African Infrastructure Development uses three case studies of Chinese-financed and constructed rail projects to explore the broader phenomenon of the fast-progressing relations between China and Africa and to offer insights into African domestic politics. Relying primarily on over 250 in-depth interviews and unpublished documents collected during extensive fieldwork from 2014-2019 in Kenya, Ethiopia, Angola, and China, Yuan Wang traces the trajectories of the Standard Gauge Railway in Kenya, the Addis Ababa-Djibouti Railway in Ethiopia, and the Caminho de Ferro de Benguela in Angola, and finds that African political championship is the central factor that determines the outcomes of this type of project. Contrary to the conventional understanding that centralized political institutions such as those in the developmental states are more conducive to rulers’ commitment to developmental projects, the book finds that political championship can be generated from leaders’ perceived threats of competitive elections in democratic states such as Kenya.

Table contents:

1. The Railpolitik: Agency of African leaders in Sino-African relations
2. A Kenyan railway? A Kenyatta railway?
3. Revolutionary democracy, developmental state, and capitalism
4. The struggle to reconstruct: A railway of neglect
5. Big brother and small boy? African executive extraversion under Sino-African power asymmetry

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