China's expanded links to Africa have created a discourse of how to characterize those ties.
Western political forces and media have criticized every aspect of China's activities in Africa …

Untitled Page 1 Page 2 Critical Studies of the Asia Pacific Series Series Editor: Mark Beeson,
Winthrop Professor of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Western …

This book offers a fresh take on a major question of global debate: what explains the rise in
economic fraud in so many societies around the world? The author argues that the current …

In recent years, following the discovery of huge coal reserves in the province of Tete,
Mozambique, there has been an increasing rush of global capital into the province. This …

Uganda is regarded as the African country that has adopted the neoliberal reform package
most extensively. Notably, neoliberal reforms have targeted the reshaping not only of the …

Within this article, we aim at exploring the topic of clientelism in Cameroon as a species of a
wider phenomenon affecting Central and Western Francophone Africa. Our argument is that …

Based on critical theory and ethnographic research, this book explores how intensifying
geographies of extractive capitalism shape human lives and transformative politics in …

This article presents the concept of politically-induced displacement (PID) as a new
theoretical construct for analyzing displacement processes during regeneration of urban …

Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork within the World Bank and a Ugandan ministry, this book
critically examines how the new aid architecture recasts aid relations as a partnership. While …

Adopting a distinctive structural political economy approach, this book uniquely explains the
blind spots of alternative political economy approaches to international aid, and presents an …