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Transactional Peace? Chances and risks of US Deal-Making in Africa

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By Karoline Eickhoff, Emadeddin Badi, Fred Bauma
| Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP)
Disclaimer: This transcript has been generated by AI. It is not a fully edited and proofread text. Opener: Look what's happening in Africa, what do you think? Africa will be a key partner in building the world we want to live in, whether it is on climate, digital or trade. Our continent will continue to make steady advances in women's education and equal access to services, thereby laying the foundation for more stable and peaceful societies.
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Transactional Peace? Chances and risks of US Deal-Making in Africa

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By Karoline Eickhoff, Emadeddin Badi, Fred Bauma
| megatrends-afrika.de
Disclaimer: This transcript has been generated by AI. It is not a fully edited and proofread text. Opener: Look what's happening in Africa, what do you think? Africa will be a key partner in building the world we want to live in, whether it is on climate, digital or trade. Our continent will continue to make steady advances in women's education and equal access to services, thereby laying the foundation for more stable and peaceful societies.
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Transactional Deal-Making: The Promise and Perils for Peace Mediation

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By Karoline Eickhoff, Narine Karapetyan
| megatrends-afrika.de
Megatrends spotlight 86, 24.09.2026 Transactionalism elicits strong views on both its utility and impact on peace mediation. Narine Karapetyan and Karoline Eickhoff argue that in order to better understand transactional approaches and their effects, we need to focus on the shifting role of third-party interests.
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Communicating Strategically about What? Europe and China in the Kenyan Media

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By Karoline Eickhoff, Paul Bochtler
| Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP)
European actors are increasingly relying on strategic communication tools in their external relations, especially in key partner countries like Kenya. Based on a large-scale media screening and interviews with media experts, this paper examines which issues related to the EU/Europe and China have received the most media coverage in Kenya over the past decade (2013–2023).
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China in Africa: Shaping Economic Relations Through Subnational Actors

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By Hangwei Li, Karoline Eickhoff
| Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP)
This policy brief analyses recent patterns and motives of China’s party diplomacy in Africa. It finds that the International Department of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP-ID) maintains close ties with the main ruling parties in some countries in the South and East of the continent as well as a broad range of parties in countries in North Africa.
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FOCAC 2024: Moving Away from Large Infrastructure Deals towards Normative Power of China

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By Hangwei Li, Christine Hackenesch, Karoline Eickhoff
| megatrends-afrika.de
FOCAC 2024: Moving Away from Large Infrastructure Deals towards Normative Power of China German Megatrends spotlight 38, 16.09.2024 The FOCAC Beijing Action Plan (2025–2027) outlines concrete targets for China–Africa relations. What are the latest trends shaping this partnership, and how might they impact Europe’s cooperation with Africa?
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Communicating Strategically about What? Europe and China in the Kenyan Media

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By Karoline Eickhoff
| megatrends-afrika.de
Communicating Strategically about What? Europe and China in the Kenyan Media Megatrends Policy Brief 27, 04.09.2024, 11 Seiten doi:10.18449/2024MTA-PB27
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Strategische Beziehungen mit Afrika: Konnektivität als Türöffner?

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By Karoline Eickhoff
| Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP)
Der Ausbau von Infrastruktur wird über die Grenzen von Politikfeldern hinweg als ein wichtiger Schlüssel zu wirtschaftlicher Entwicklung angesehen. Produktion und Handel erfordern ausgebaute Verkehrswege, eine sichere Elektrizitäts- und Wasserversorgung und zuverlässige Internetverbindungen. Soziale Infrastruktur wie Gemeindezentren, Schulen und bezahlbarer Wohnraum ermöglichen das gesellschaftliche Zusammenleben.
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Is India the New China? Rivalries in Development Finance

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By Karoline Eickhoff
| megatrends-afrika.de
How does India react to China's expanding footprint in global development In a new working paper (Asmus et al. 2021), we examine the relationship between grants and loans from India and China to developing countries. We hypothesize that India likely follows Beijing's actions, given that Beijing oversees a substantially larger portfolio of overseas development projects (Asmus, Fuchs and Müller, 2020). India may compete with China for both commercial and geopolitical reasons.
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