Aid donor meets strategic partner? The European Union's and China's relations with Ethiopia

Journal article | Zeitschriftenartikel

The motives, instruments and effects of China’s Africa policy have spurred a lively debate in European development policy circles. This paper assesses the “competitive pressure” that China’s growing presence in Africa exerts on the European development policy regime. Drawing on a large number of interviews conducted in China, Ethiopia and Europe between 2008 and 2011, the paper analyses Ethiopia as a case study. Ethiopia has emerged as one of the most important countries in Chinese as well as European cooperation with Africa. Yet, Chinese and European policies toward Ethiopia differ greatly. The EU mainly engages Ethiopia as an aid recipient, whereas China has developed a comprehensive political and economic partnership with the East African state. China has thereby become an alternative partner to the Ethiopian government, a development that both sheds light on the gap between European rhetoric and policy practice and puts pressure on the EU to make more efforts to reform its development policy system.

Object Details

• Alternative title: Hilfeanbieter trifft strategischen Partner? Die Beziehungen der EU und Chinas zu Äthiopien
• ISSN: 1868-4874
• Extent: Seite(n): 7-36
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, 42(1)

Classification and Topics

• Subject: Internationale Beziehungen ; Soziologie, Anthropologie ; Entwicklungsländersoziologie, Entwicklungssoziologie ; internationale Beziehungen, Entwicklungspolitik ; EU ; EU-Politik ; China ; Äthiopien ; Entwicklungsförderung ; Entwicklungshilfe ; Entwicklungshilfepolitik ; Kooperation ; Strategie ; internationale Beziehungen ; Ostasien ; Ostafrika ; anwendungsorientiert ; deskriptive Studie ; empirisch ; empirisch-quantitativ

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Hackenesch, Christine
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Deutschland
• (when): 2013

Further information

• URN: urn:nbn:de:gbv:18-4-5902
• Last update: 21.06.2024, 4:26 PM CEST