Dominik Kopiński
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 258027 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Dominik Kopiński |
| PRENOMES | Dominik |
| SOBRENOME | Kopiński |
| ASSINATURA | KOPIŃSKI D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Wrocław |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5826-7942 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 22 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 14 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2011 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
The international expansion of Navimor International
Examining shifts in the Angola–China relations in the post-dos santos era
The Angola–China connection has famously been branded a ‘marriage of convenience’—an ‘uneasy alliance’ forged for pragmatic reasons at an opportune time of mutual need. In this article, we document how the relationship has more recently undergone a marital burnout of sorts. Chinese loans to Angola have dried up and most Chinese state-owned enterprises have left, as have 90 percent of Chinese migrants. The legacy of this marriage is somewhat mixed…
The Political Economy of Chinese FDI and Spillover Effects in Africa
Leaving Africa behind? Covid-19 and global public goods
Just as the understanding of COVID-19 has evolved over time – particularly the virus’ ability to rapidly mutate – so too have the apparent solutions at hand. Nonetheless, vaccinating an adequate number of people remains the holy grail, even if this is unlikely to eradicate the virus altogether. This puts most African countries, where on average only 4.4% of the population are currently vaccinated, at a clear disadvantage. Employing the concept of…
China and the Troubled Prospects for Africa's Economic Take-Off
Chinese investment in Africa has captured the interest of both academia and the wider policy world, with some postulating that Chinese firms have the potential to bring about a structural transformation of the continent. Some scholars have even gone as far as to claim that Africa may be turned into the ‘next factory of the world’. By focusing on spillover effects – arguably the most sought-after of foreign direct investment effects – this article…
A Marriage of Convenience on the Rocks? Revisiting the Sino-Angolan Relationship
China's relationship with Angola - which is both the region's top oil exporter to China and recipient of the highest amount of Chinese loans - represents a critical case when it comes to studying Sino-African relations. The Sino-Angolan relationship, forged for purely pragmatic reasons at an opportune moment of mutual need in the early 2000s, has been labelled a 'marriage of convenience'. A variety of factors have, however, altered the environmen…
Reproduction and convertibility
Inspired by Pierre Bourdieu’s notion of capital convertibility, this article investigates why wealth inequalities in South Africa under the African National Congress have remained so persistently stubborn and how it is possible that the revolutionary movement, ostensibly devoted to the ideals of the Freedom Charter, has not managed to radically improve matters 25 years after the fall of apartheid. Based on a series of interviews conducted with So…
The international relations of Sub-Saharan Africa
This book is structured as a critical overview of Sub-Saharan Africa's relations with the wider world. It employs a country by country methodology which helps the reader to appreciate the historica
Ready or Not
The primary objective of this paper is to assess whether Namibia is ready to become an oil producer. The geological estimates suggest that the country may possess the equivalent of as many as 11 billion barrels of crude oil. If the numbers are correct, Namibia would be sitting on the second-largest oil reserves in sub-Saharan Africa, and exploitation could start as soon as 2017. This clearly raises the question of whether Namibia is next in line …
China and the European Union in Africa. Partners or competitors
Dominik KopińskiInstitute of International StudiesUniversity of Wroclaw, PolandEmail: [email protected]© 2013 Dominik Kopiński
New Friends, Old Friends? The World Bank and Africa When the Chinese Are Coming
With China increasing its financing of Africa's development, roles have shifted and new roles are being assigned. The World Bank, having been for many years a prime and essentially unchallenged financier of Africa's development, is under pressure to reconsider its policies vis-a-vis African members. Two Chinese banks have been highly instrumental in this trend—the China Development Bank and the Export-Import Bank of China. According to various es…
Resource curse or resource disease? Oil in Ghana
Ghana has recently joined the ranks of oil-producing states with a projected output of 120,000 barrels per day. This has greatly elevated hopes among the general public, but also sparked fears of a ‘Nigerian scenario’ in which oil becomes a problem rather than a solution. This article argues that Ghana, as a latecomer to the oil industry, may possess a structural immunity against the natural resource curse. The argument centres on three main fact…
Polish African Studies at a Crossroads
The main objective of this contribution is to examine the developments and challenges of African Studies in Poland, with a special focus on the fields of political science and economics. The article demonstrates that the historical development of Polish African Studies has shaped, but also limited, the ongoing debate concerning its nature and objectives. The paper discusses two competing interpretations of the substance of African Studies and dea…
Sino-Zambian relations
Sino-Zambian relations are exceptional to a remarkable degree, and do not seem to fall into the common pattern used to describe the Sino-African relationship as part of a so-called ‘new scramble for Africa’. Zambia is a country where both positive and negative developments took place earlier than elsewhere on the African continent and, in this respect, Zambia has always been one step ahead of the rest of its peers. This study is divided into thre…
Contextualising Chinese engagement in Africa
In seeking to cultivate external relations with African countries, China has long stressed its commonly shared roots with African nations as a developing country rather than a Western state, and as such the symbolic attraction of China clearly reverberates with many African elites who seem to look on China as a positive development model. However, it should be noted that this has not been embraced solely by dictatorial or authoritarian regimes bu…
Resource curse or resource disease? Oil in Ghana
Ghana has recently joined the ranks of oil-producing states with a projected output of 120,000 barrels per day. This has greatly elevated hopes among the general public, but also sparked fears of a ‘Nigerian scenario’ in which oil becomes a problem rather than a solution. This article argues that Ghana, as a latecomer to the oil industry, may possess a structural immunity against the natural resource curse. The argument centres on three main fact…
A Marriage of Convenience on the Rocks? Revisiting the Sino-Angolan Relationship
China's relationship with Angola - which is both the region's top oil exporter to China and recipient of the highest amount of Chinese loans - represents a critical case when it comes to studying Sino-African relations. The Sino-Angolan relationship, forged for purely pragmatic reasons at an opportune moment of mutual need in the early 2000s, has been labelled a 'marriage of convenience'. A variety of factors have, however, altered the environmen…
New Friends, Old Friends? The World Bank and Africa When the Chinese Are Coming
With China increasing its financing of Africa's development, roles have shifted and new roles are being assigned. The World Bank, having been for many years a prime and essentially unchallenged financier of Africa's development, is under pressure to reconsider its policies vis-a-vis African members. Two Chinese banks have been highly instrumental in this trend—the China Development Bank and the Export-Import Bank of China. According to various es…
Contextualising Chinese engagement in Africa
In seeking to cultivate external relations with African countries, China has long stressed its commonly shared roots with African nations as a developing country rather than a Western state, and as such the symbolic attraction of China clearly reverberates with many African elites who seem to look on China as a positive development model. However, it should be noted that this has not been embraced solely by dictatorial or authoritarian regimes bu…
Examining shifts in the Angola–China relations in the post-dos santos era
The Angola–China connection has famously been branded a ‘marriage of convenience’—an ‘uneasy alliance’ forged for pragmatic reasons at an opportune time of mutual need. In this article, we document how the relationship has more recently undergone a marital burnout of sorts. Chinese loans to Angola have dried up and most Chinese state-owned enterprises have left, as have 90 percent of Chinese migrants. The legacy of this marriage is somewhat mixed…
China and the Troubled Prospects for Africa's Economic Take-Off
Chinese investment in Africa has captured the interest of both academia and the wider policy world, with some postulating that Chinese firms have the potential to bring about a structural transformation of the continent. Some scholars have even gone as far as to claim that Africa may be turned into the ‘next factory of the world’. By focusing on spillover effects – arguably the most sought-after of foreign direct investment effects – this article…
Reproduction and convertibility
Inspired by Pierre Bourdieu’s notion of capital convertibility, this article investigates why wealth inequalities in South Africa under the African National Congress have remained so persistently stubborn and how it is possible that the revolutionary movement, ostensibly devoted to the ideals of the Freedom Charter, has not managed to radically improve matters 25 years after the fall of apartheid. Based on a series of interviews conducted with So…
Ready or Not
The primary objective of this paper is to assess whether Namibia is ready to become an oil producer. The geological estimates suggest that the country may possess the equivalent of as many as 11 billion barrels of crude oil. If the numbers are correct, Namibia would be sitting on the second-largest oil reserves in sub-Saharan Africa, and exploitation could start as soon as 2017. This clearly raises the question of whether Namibia is next in line …
Sino-Zambian relations
Sino-Zambian relations are exceptional to a remarkable degree, and do not seem to fall into the common pattern used to describe the Sino-African relationship as part of a so-called ‘new scramble for Africa’. Zambia is a country where both positive and negative developments took place earlier than elsewhere on the African continent and, in this respect, Zambia has always been one step ahead of the rest of its peers. This study is divided into thre…
Sino-Zambian relations
Sino-Zambian relations are exceptional to a remarkable degree, and do not seem to fall into the common pattern used to describe the Sino-African relationship as part of a so-called ‘new scramble for Africa’. Zambia is a country where both positive and negative developments took place earlier than elsewhere on the African continent and, in this respect, Zambia has always been one step ahead of the rest of its peers. This study is divided into thre…
Contextualising Chinese engagement in Africa
In seeking to cultivate external relations with African countries, China has long stressed its commonly shared roots with African nations as a developing country rather than a Western state, and as such the symbolic attraction of China clearly reverberates with many African elites who seem to look on China as a positive development model. However, it should be noted that this has not been embraced solely by dictatorial or authoritarian regimes bu…
Polish African Studies at a Crossroads
The main objective of this contribution is to examine the developments and challenges of African Studies in Poland, with a special focus on the fields of political science and economics. The article demonstrates that the historical development of Polish African Studies has shaped, but also limited, the ongoing debate concerning its nature and objectives. The paper discusses two competing interpretations of the substance of African Studies and dea…
Resource curse or resource disease? Oil in Ghana
Ghana has recently joined the ranks of oil-producing states with a projected output of 120,000 barrels per day. This has greatly elevated hopes among the general public, but also sparked fears of a ‘Nigerian scenario’ in which oil becomes a problem rather than a solution. This article argues that Ghana, as a latecomer to the oil industry, may possess a structural immunity against the natural resource curse. The argument centres on three main fact…
China and the European Union in Africa. Partners or competitors
Dominik KopińskiInstitute of International StudiesUniversity of Wroclaw, PolandEmail: [email protected]© 2013 Dominik Kopiński
New Friends, Old Friends? The World Bank and Africa When the Chinese Are Coming
With China increasing its financing of Africa's development, roles have shifted and new roles are being assigned. The World Bank, having been for many years a prime and essentially unchallenged financier of Africa's development, is under pressure to reconsider its policies vis-a-vis African members. Two Chinese banks have been highly instrumental in this trend—the China Development Bank and the Export-Import Bank of China. According to various es…
The international relations of Sub-Saharan Africa
This book is structured as a critical overview of Sub-Saharan Africa's relations with the wider world. It employs a country by country methodology which helps the reader to appreciate the historica
Ready or Not
The primary objective of this paper is to assess whether Namibia is ready to become an oil producer. The geological estimates suggest that the country may possess the equivalent of as many as 11 billion barrels of crude oil. If the numbers are correct, Namibia would be sitting on the second-largest oil reserves in sub-Saharan Africa, and exploitation could start as soon as 2017. This clearly raises the question of whether Namibia is next in line …
Reproduction and convertibility
Inspired by Pierre Bourdieu’s notion of capital convertibility, this article investigates why wealth inequalities in South Africa under the African National Congress have remained so persistently stubborn and how it is possible that the revolutionary movement, ostensibly devoted to the ideals of the Freedom Charter, has not managed to radically improve matters 25 years after the fall of apartheid. Based on a series of interviews conducted with So…
Leaving Africa behind? Covid-19 and global public goods
Just as the understanding of COVID-19 has evolved over time – particularly the virus’ ability to rapidly mutate – so too have the apparent solutions at hand. Nonetheless, vaccinating an adequate number of people remains the holy grail, even if this is unlikely to eradicate the virus altogether. This puts most African countries, where on average only 4.4% of the population are currently vaccinated, at a clear disadvantage. Employing the concept of…
China and the Troubled Prospects for Africa's Economic Take-Off
Chinese investment in Africa has captured the interest of both academia and the wider policy world, with some postulating that Chinese firms have the potential to bring about a structural transformation of the continent. Some scholars have even gone as far as to claim that Africa may be turned into the ‘next factory of the world’. By focusing on spillover effects – arguably the most sought-after of foreign direct investment effects – this article…
A Marriage of Convenience on the Rocks? Revisiting the Sino-Angolan Relationship
China's relationship with Angola - which is both the region's top oil exporter to China and recipient of the highest amount of Chinese loans - represents a critical case when it comes to studying Sino-African relations. The Sino-Angolan relationship, forged for purely pragmatic reasons at an opportune moment of mutual need in the early 2000s, has been labelled a 'marriage of convenience'. A variety of factors have, however, altered the environmen…
The Political Economy of Chinese FDI and Spillover Effects in Africa
Examining shifts in the Angola–China relations in the post-dos santos era
The Angola–China connection has famously been branded a ‘marriage of convenience’—an ‘uneasy alliance’ forged for pragmatic reasons at an opportune time of mutual need. In this article, we document how the relationship has more recently undergone a marital burnout of sorts. Chinese loans to Angola have dried up and most Chinese state-owned enterprises have left, as have 90 percent of Chinese migrants. The legacy of this marriage is somewhat mixed…
The international expansion of Navimor International
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