This book focuses on underexploited data drawn from various legal disputes over the Doraleh Container Terminal in order to paint a portrait of SSC when it comes to infrastructure financing and construction in Africa as provided both by the UAE and China. By producing a detailed account of the drivers behind these disputes as well as the broader political outcomes they have generated, this study provides invaluable conceptual and empirical lessons on the contemporary meaning of SSC. In doing so, it helps readers garner a more acute understanding of the role played by Global South states and the private sector (SOEs) against the backdrop of SSC.

First monograph to cover the chronology of legal disputes over the Doraleh Container Terminal Contributes to the paucity of literature tying the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) to South-South Cooperation (SSC) Reinforces the literature on the role of local agency in shaping the BRI/SSC projects

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Benjamin Barton is the author of Political Trust and the Politics of Security Engagement: China and the European Union in Africa (2017) and co-editor of China and the European Union in Africa: Partners or Competitors? (2011). His research interests centre around economic statecraft and local agency attached to the BRI. Barton is Associate Professor at the University of Nottingham Malaysia, where he convenes modules on Chinese foreign policy and on the geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific.

Inhalt
Chapter 1: Introduction: SSC, the BRI and the power struggle over the Doraleh ecosystems.- Chapter 2: Unpacking, delineating and recalibrating third wave SSC.- Chapter 3: The multilevel politics of Djibouti's maritime infrastructure.- Chapter 4: The DCT: The fractious origins of a geopolitically-sensitive port ecosystem.- Chapter 5: The Maritime Silk Road effect in Djibouti.- Chapter 6: Reconciling third wave SSC with Emirati and Chinese infrastructure endeavours in Djibouti.