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5. China’s Development-Oriented Peacekeeping Strategy in Africa

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Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

This chapter investigates how China has adjusted its policies in response to the growing need to participate in peacekeeping in Africa and elsewhere in the world. China’s focus on a development-oriented approach, persuasive diplomacy, and noncoercive means demonstrates an alternative to the robust approach of humanitarian intervention usually advocated by the Western countries, which puts more stress on peacekeeping troops’ coercive intervention despite lack of consent of major relevant parties, while often causing the loss of neutrality and deep entanglement with the civil conflicts.

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Vorheriges Kapitel Developmental Peace: Understanding China’s Africa Policy in Peace and Security

Nächstes Kapitel On China’s Military Diplomacy in Africa

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Titel: China’s Development-Oriented Peacekeeping Strategy in Africa
verfasst von: Xue Lei
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Buch: China and Africa
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-52892-2

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-52893-9

Copyright-Jahr: 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52893-9_5