Brazil and China in Africa: South-South Engagement in Comparative Perspective

Session Submission Type: Panel

Abstract

Over the last five years there has been a dramatic increase in scholarship discussing the rise of South-South cooperation and pan-Southern political and economic engagement. Although the case of China has dominated this literature, the Brazilian experience is receiving increasing attention. Scholars are beginning to argue that there is a qualitative difference between the Brazilian and Chinese approach to South-South relations. Brazil is often credited with a longer-term, more inclusive approach than the perceived predatory capitalism model from China. The papers in this panel will take up and question this apparent distinction, asking if there is, in fact, much substantive difference between Brazilian and Chinese relations with Africa.

Sub Track

• International Relations

Session Organizer

• Sean W Burges, Australian National University

Individual Presentations

• Brazil - Angola Relations: The South Atlantic Perspective - Joseph C Marques, Geneva School of Diplomacy

• Brazil’s and China’s engagement with Africa: the cases of Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau - Carlos R S Milani, IESP-UERJ

• Brazilian Multinational Corporations in Africa: The Brazilian Government as ‘pushmi-pullyu’? - Sean W Burges, Australian National University

• The Limits of the Neighborhood: South-West Africa, the South Atlantic, and the Concept of Region in Brazilian Foreign Policy - Vinicius G Rodrigues Vieira

Discussant

• Mahrukh Doctor, University of Hull