Overseas development aid as spatial fix? Examining South Korea’s Africa policy.

This paper examines the extent to which South Korea’s developmental aid programme to Africa can be understood as a form of ‘aid as imperialism’. We argue against the depiction of a crude determinism between the ‘interests of capital’ and the international activism of the South Korean state through a...

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Publicado en:Third World Quarterly Vol. 37; no. 4; pp. 649 - 665
Autores principales: Kim, Soyeun, Gray, Kevin
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Apr2016
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          Institute for East Asian Studies, Sogang University, Seoul, South Korea
          Department of International Relations, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
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        Africa
        International economic assistance
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        South Korean foreign relations
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