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Pádraig Carmody - Rise of the BRICS in Africa, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

Rise of the BRICS in Africa

The Geopolitics of South-South Relations

Av Pádraig Carmody

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A little over a decade ago Africa was being spoken of in the media as the 'lost' or 'hopeless' continent. Now it has some of the fastest growing economies in the world, largely because of the impact of the BRICS: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. In this first book to be written about the BRICS as a collective phenomenon, Pádraig Carmody reveals how their engagements with Africa, both individually and collectively, are often contradictory, generating new inequalities and potential for development. Crucially, Carmody shows how the geopolitics of the BRICS countries' involvement in Africa is impacted by and impacts upon their international relations more generally, and how the emergence of these economies has begun to alter the very nature of globalization, which is no longer purely a Western-led project.This is a path-breaking examination of Africa's changing role in the world.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2013-09-12
  • Mått: 138 x 216 x 14 mm
  • Vikt: 367 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 184
  • Förlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • ISBN: 9781780326054
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Pádraig Carmody lectures in development geography at Trinity College Dublin, from which he holds both a BA in geography and history and an MSc in geography. He completed his PhD in geography at the University of Minnesota in 1998. Subsequently he taught at the University of Vermont, Dublin City University and St Patrick's College, Drumcondra. He also worked as a policy and research analyst for the Combat Poverty Agency in 2002/3. His research centres on the political economy of globalization in Africa.

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This book is an excellent and concise primer for students of international relations and African Studies interested in understanding the evolving global power shift and Africa's place within it. By carefully deconstructing the acronym BRICS, Carmody expose its limitations as an analytical tool for understanding structural change, and then proceeds to provide important pointers on how Africa should respond to the challenge posed by the increasing influence of Brazil, Russia, India and China on Africa's development.

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