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South Korea has become one of the top five trade partners with Africa, assisted mainly by the cohesiveness of its government–business relationship. Murad Shamilov explores two main issues which have arisen as South Korea opens up markets and furthers its influence in Africa: whether exportation of the Korean ‘economic miracle’ to Africa is viable; and whether the support Korea received following the Korean War created sub-imperialist tendencies, notably manifested in its use of official developmental assistance as leverage for economic access in Africa.
Some of this material appears in the author’s Master’s thesis at Kazakh University of International Relations and World Languages, Almaty, Kazakhstan. With thanks to Nicole Dodd for writing and statistical assistance.
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Shamilov, M. (2016). South Korea in Africa: Exporting an ‘Economic Miracle’ or ‘Imperialist Mimicry’?. In: van der Merwe, J., Taylor, I., Arkhangelskaya, A. (eds) Emerging Powers in Africa. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40736-4_10
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