Africa Rising?
Africa Rising?
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非洲崛起？
DOI：
10.2307/j.ctvc16pxw
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发表时间：
2014
影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
I. Taylor
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作者：
I. Taylor
据说非洲正在崛起，翻开了其历史上决定性的一页，预示着非洲大陆新的令人兴奋的可能性。这一论述认为，伴随着经济增长的提速，治理水平和内生动力也随之提高；新兴经济体，尤其是金砖国家（巴西、俄罗斯、印度、中国和南非），在非洲国际关系多样化方面发挥了重要作用，或许会导致全球秩序发生有利于发展中国家的根本变化。但这在多大程度上是正确的，对整个社会的影响有多深、多广？这本书对流行的非洲崛起话语进行了批判性的审视，并探讨了非洲“崛起”的性质和含义以及金砖国家在其中所扮演的角色。作者认为，非洲仍然需要进行任何结构转型；有强有力的证据表明，去工业化和失业增长伴随着对欧洲大陆兴趣的高涨；非洲的发展轨迹远没有发生根本性的转变，而是被推到了资源的角落，成为大宗商品出口国，对北方（现在是金砖国家）来说，工业进步或技能提升的空间很小。希望金砖国家能够为现有的新自由主义秩序提供一种替代方案是错误的，因为维持当前的全球不平等关系到金砖国家的利益。因此，非洲必须开辟自己的独立道路- -虽然新兴经济体将是重要的，但依赖外部行为者可能只会重现目前的不发达状态。伊恩·泰勒，圣安德鲁斯大学国际关系与非洲政治教授；中国人民大学讲座教授；南非斯泰伦博斯大学非凡教授；中国浙江师范大学非洲研究所名誉教授；乌干达姆巴拉拉科技大学访问学者。
Africa is said to be rising, turning a definitive page in its history, heralding new and exciting possibilities for the continent. This discourse maintains that with upsurge in economic growth comes improved governance and endogenous dynamics; that the emerging economies, and especially the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India China, South Africa), have been instrumental in diversifying Africa's international relations, perhaps leading to a radical change in the global order, favourable to the developing world. But to what extent is this true, and how deep and how broad has been the impact on society at large? This book takes a critical look at the prevalent Africa Rising discourse, and explores the nature and implications of Africa's "rise" and the role that the BRICS have played in it. The author argues that Africa has still to undergo any structural transformation; that there is strong evidence that deindustrialisation and jobless growth have accompanied the upsurge of interest in the continent; and that far from making a radical turn in its developmental trajectory, Africa is being pushed into the resource corner as commodity exporters, to the North (and now, the BRICS) with little scope for industrial progress or skills advancement. Hope that the BRICS might offer an alternative to the extant neoliberal order are misplaced, for the BRICS have a stake in maintaining the current global unequality. Africa must therefore fashion its own independent path - while the emerging economies will be important, relying on external actors may simply reproduce anew the current state of underdevelopment. Ian Taylor is Professor in International Relations and African Politics, University of St Andrews; Chair Professor, Renmin, University of China; Professor Extraordinary, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa; Honorary Professor, Institute of African Studies, Zhejiang Normal University, China; and a Visiting Scholar at Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Uganda.