Comparison of Africa’s Engagement with Russia, China and India: historical, cultural, economic and political dimensions. A view from Moscow

Kazan Journal of International Law and International Relations. 2016. P. 83–90.

Архангельская А. А.

Over the past two decades, a fundamental transformation has taken place in the global economy caused by the impressive economic growth of developing countries like China, India, Brazil, and South Africa. Concurrently and since the beginning of the XXI century, the world economy has gone to a new step of globalization, one in which is the existence of new leaders in economic growth. Nowadays, basically all parties agree that the unipolar global architecture is gone. In that context and given Africa’s recent strong growth igures, a perceptible shift has moved in the direction of Africa being now a “rising star”. As part of such dynamics, there are claims that huge improvements in governance across Africa and consequent rise of interest from above mentioned emerging old and new powers towards continent’s affairs is a new page in the history of Africa. This proposal offers a holistic and comprehensive comparative assessment of the Africa’s engagement with Russia, China and India with a special focus on historical, cultural, economic and political dimensions. Unrevealing a long history of interaction and the context of growing reciprocal interests of the relationship, the vivid debate and activities on the international arena, together with the importance of a cultural heritage, and a growing China, India and Russia’s importance on the continent, its impact on Africa’s diplomacy, as well as the eficacy of multilateral bodies in this process and a more complete assessment of such impact on African development prospects to the continent needs to be better understood

Ключевые слова: международные отношения, международное право, Африка, international relations, Africa, international law