United States and Chinese Foreign Assistance and Diplomacy: Aid for Dominance

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Aid for Dominance addresses the analytic weaknesses of mainstream analysis of foreign aid, which often focuses on its material dimensions. The book underscores the constitutive relationship between foreign aid as a material resource and the diplomatic discourses and practices that constitute complex bilateral relations between donor and recipient states. Written by two leading scholars of contemporary United States and Chinese foreign policies in the Global South, Aid for Dominance offers a pioneering, theoretically conscious, and empirically rich account of the two great powers' grand strategies in the global development sector. By deploying a multidisciplinary and comparative analysis, this book draws from a wide range of evidentiary materials from primary sources, including data from fieldwork interviews, government documents, local and international newspapers, speeches by high-ranking government officials and diplomats, and secondary data from scholarly publications and policy papers.

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'Global in scope and brilliant in analysis, this vital book illuminates the multiple ways in which different actors instrumentalise overseas aid in the context of heightened geopolitical competition between China and the United States. If you want to understand how China is winning in this arena of global influence, you have found a defining, definitive, and compelling source.'

Pdraig Carmody, Trinity College Dublin

Author Bio

Salvador Santino Regilmeis an Associate Professor of International Relations at Leiden University in the Netherlands.

Obert Hodzi is an Associate Professor in Politics at the University of Liverpool, UK.