The End of China's Non-Intervention Policy in Africa

Contents

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Chapter 1: Rising Powers and Intervention in Foreign Intrastate Armed Conflicts

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Making Sense of the Intervention Behaviour of Rising Powers

1.3 Why China?

1.4 Methodology

1.4.1 Selection of Intrastate Armed Conflict Cases for Study

1.4.2 Data Collection and Analysis

1.5 Definition of Key Terms

1.5.1 Intervention

1.5.2 Intrastate Armed Conflicts

1.6 Book Outline

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Chapter 2: Bringing China into the Foreign Intervention Discourse

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Intervention in IR: Marginality of Non-Western Rising Powers

2.3 Bringing China In

2.4 Reimagining Intervention

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Chapter 3: Cyclical Patterns of China’s Intervention Policy

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Intervention in Imperial China

3.3 Incorporation of Imperial China into a Truly International System of States

3.4 Reimagining the International and Intervention: China Under Mao

3.5 The Beginning of Intervention in African Conflicts by China

3.6 China First: Africa in Deng Xiaoping’s China

3.7 Prosperous China and Re-emergence of Intervention in Africa

3.8 The Cyclical Pattern in China’s External Intervention Behaviour: A Recap

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Chapter 4: Libya

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Background of China-Libya Relations

4.3 Troubled Diplomatic Relations

4.4 China-Libya Economic and Trade Engagements

4.5 China’s Involvement in Libya’s Industry

4.6 Implications of the Libyan Armed Conflict on China’s Economic and Trade Interests

4.7 China’s Intervention in Libyan Armed Conflict

4.7.1 Non-intervention

4.7.2 Transition from Non-intervention to Pragmatic Intervention

4.7.3 China’s Complicity in Multilateral Intervention in the Libyan Intrastate Armed Conflict

4.7.4 Engagement with the NTC and Mediation Attempts

4.7.5 Evacuation and Protection of Chinese Nationals

4.8 The Ambivalence of China’s Intervention in Libya

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Chapter 5: Mali

5.1 Introduction

5.2 China-Mali Political and Diplomatic Relations

5.3 Sino-Mali Economic and Trade Relations

5.4 Insurrections and Coup d’états: A Test to China’s Non-intervention Principle

5.5 From Indifference to “Concern”

5.6 From Concern to Rhetorical Support for Mediation

5.7 Multilateral Action

5.8 Conclusion: Striking a Balance Between Intervention and Non-intervention

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Chapter 6: South Sudan

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Background of China-South Sudan Relations

6.3 The Genesis of Beijing-SPLM Relations

6.4 China-SPLM Courtship: Building Relations for a Mutually Beneficial Future?

6.5 China in Independent South Sudan

6.6 China and the South Sudan Intrastate Armed Conflict

6.7 Unilateral and Multilateral Mediation

6.8 China as the “Go-Between”

6.9 Multilateral Intervention: Leveraging on IGAD

6.10 Multilateral Intervention: UN Peacekeeping as a Platform

6.11 Conclusion

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Chapter 7: Conclusion: Trends and Patterns of China’s Intervention in Africa

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Emerging Trends and Patterns

7.2.1 Flexible Interpretation of the Non-intervention Principle

7.2.2 As China’s Relative Economic Power Increases, Its External Intervention Is Increasing

7.2.3 Changes in Perception of Foreign Intrastate Armed Conflicts as Threats Are Leading to More Intervention

7.2.4 No Opposition to Intervention by Western Global Powers

7.2.5 China Is Increasingly Using UN Peacekeeping Operations to Intervene in Africa

7.2.6 From Passive and Inactive to Assertive and Proactive Intervention Approach

7.3 Implications for Understandings of Intervention

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Index