Unpacking Sino-African Health Diplomacy: Problematizing a Hegemonic Construction

Author: Kadetz, Paul

Source: St Antony's International Review, Volume 8, Number 2, February 2013 , pp. 149-172(24)

Publisher: St Antony's International Review

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Abstract:

The practice of health diplomacy aims to prioritize the health care aspects of humanitarian aid as a mechanism for political economic negotiations between donor and recipient nations. Existing research concerning health diplomacy failed to assess the context-appropriateness of the health care aid transferred, the manner in which health diplomacy is implemented, and the political and economic ideologies embedded in such transfers. This paper examines how health diplomacy may be understood in terms of the above-mentioned criteria using specific illustrative examples of Sino-African health diplomacy over the past sixty years. China's health diplomacy is contrasted with examples of that of the US in order to assess whether the former constitutes a distinct alternative to the normative health diplomacy of the global North.

Document Type: Research article

Publication date: 2013-02-01

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