African Bargaining Power with China: Foreign Investment and Rising Influence

This book provides a detailed account of the political economy around investment deal negotiations between African governments and private Chinese investors.

The book draws on evidence from experiments and hundreds of interviews with policy makers and Chinese investors across Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya, Ethiopia and Tanzania. It shows that governments of authoritarian or one-party dominant states, which are among the top-receivers of Chinese investments, are able to easily and successfull...