This thesis looks at India as a development partner compared to Dutch development cooperation. This thesis aims to find out if the South-South cooperation approach to development is differing from...Show moreThis thesis looks at India as a development partner compared to Dutch development cooperation. This thesis aims to find out if the South-South cooperation approach to development is differing from a traditional donor approach to development cooperation. The comparative framework used is based on assumed differences between SSC and NSC derived from the literature review and claims made by SSC emerging partners like India. The factors are terminology, the rejection of conditionality, horizontal partnerships, agency of partner/recipient, and capacity building. This study contributes to the academic debate on the changing global power dynamics in the liberal world order, with emerging powers like India challenging the traditional development approach. They are claiming a more visible and active role in the field of international development. Through comparative analyses, the following research question will be answered: In what ways is the development partnership between India and Africa different from the traditional development cooperation approach of the Netherlands in Africa?Show less
For decades, Mozambique was a showcase of a beneficial Western aid recipient on the African continent. However, following a national debt crisis and the global financial crisis in 2008, the country...Show moreFor decades, Mozambique was a showcase of a beneficial Western aid recipient on the African continent. However, following a national debt crisis and the global financial crisis in 2008, the country started looking eastwards, increasingly seeking and accepting investment and aid from China. Mozambique witnessed increasing engagement from China, especially in the exploitation of raw materials and infrastructure development. In academic literature and public discourse, the South-South cooperation between the two developing countries is often portrayed as benefitting only China, ascribing the Mozambican state a merely passive and receiving role. This thesis scrutinizes this assumption and explores the different ways in which the Mozambican government asserts its agency vis-à-vis China, specifically in the mining sector. Indeed, the analysis shows that, despite structural constraints, the government does exercise agency on various levels.Show less
The thesis engages in the debate on framing China in the US media, by analyzing the coverage of Chinese investments in the New York Times and the Washington Post. The aim of this research is to...Show moreThe thesis engages in the debate on framing China in the US media, by analyzing the coverage of Chinese investments in the New York Times and the Washington Post. The aim of this research is to explore dominating frames in the US elite newspaper with regard to China, Latin American countries and the Amazon rainforest. Moreover, the paper examines whether framing in the US newspapers reflected the state of the US-China relations, as well as the US government official rhetoric towards China during 2009-2019. The findings of the thesis suggest prevalence of the following frames: The US-China geopolitical rivalry, Unscrupulous China and Vulnerable Latin America. The results indicate that in the spotlight was the damaging activity of Chinese ventures lacking in adequate contextualization of their activities in the history of foreign companies operations in the same industries in the Amazon. The tendencies indentified in the media coverage correspond with the arguments previously presented in the literature on the US media framing over a predominant negative focus on domestic struggles of the Global South. Furthermore, the perceptions of ‘rise of China’ and Latin America as the ‘US’s backyard’ were discerned as subsequent news tropes.Show less
This thesis consists of a research about the economic ties between China and Brazil. By the majority of the scholars, these countries are considered as being part of the Global South. The main goal...Show moreThis thesis consists of a research about the economic ties between China and Brazil. By the majority of the scholars, these countries are considered as being part of the Global South. The main goal of this thesis was to become to know to what extent the economic ties of these countries belong to South-South cooperation. This research has been carried out with the aid of four different case studies. Two of them are about Sino-Brazilian trade. That is to say that in this thesis, a special attention has been paid to Brazil's soybean exports to China as well as to Brazil's import of Chinese manufactured goods. The remaining two case studies are about Chinese investments in Brazil, of which the first one involves The Twin Ocean Railway and the second one entails China's investments in Brazil's oil sector. Another important part of this thesis, which was necessary to be able to answer the research question, is the literature review about South-South cooperation (SSC) and the particular views of Brazil and China on SSC.Show less
By answering the following research question the focus in this thesis will be on the role and influence of the UN on SSC through the use of conferences, particularly the SDG summit and the...Show moreBy answering the following research question the focus in this thesis will be on the role and influence of the UN on SSC through the use of conferences, particularly the SDG summit and the associated Financing for Development conference; In what ways does the United Nations Development System create new incentives for South-South cooperation through the SDG summit and Addis Ababa Action Agenda? Could these conferences provide a new global framework for financing sustainable development and a comprehensive set of policy actions through SouthSouth cooperation? By researching the post-2015 agenda in relation to SSC the focus will shift from the notion that the UN primarily is a carrier of technical assistance, towards the UN as transcending existing and simplistic categories of North and South.Show less
