POLI 324 Lecture Notes - Lecture 38: Beijing Consensus, Good Governance, Washington Consensus
11 Apr 2017
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Easy to marginalize regions and power dynamics that are unfolding. Changing context: rising global powers, brazil, russia, india, china, south africa (brics, need global reach and partners to assert status and influence, peaceful rise of new powers (buzan 2010) Rising within the existing order: institutions and rules. The ability to obtain what you want through co-optation and attraction rather than the hard power of coercion and payment: moving away from coercion, difference from cold war order. Development aid: limited/flexible conditions attached, but implications for human rights and good governance, instrumental use, not a new concept. Wanting support or loyalty: types of conditionality and attachment that come with development aid. Rising powers provide conditions that are flexible in contrast to conditionality of western power"s own aid: alternative channel of a similar aid with flexible condition. China"s visibility in africa: challenge of language difficulty that china faces that western powers did not have to face: strategic economic resources.
