Journal Articles
2022. Deborah Brautigam, “China and Zambia: Creating a Sovereign Debt Crisis,” International Affairs 98: 4, July 2022, pp. 1347–1365. Refereed.
2019. Deborah Brautigam, “A critical look at Chinese ‘debt-trap diplomacy’: the rise of a meme,” Area Development and Policy, 5:1 2019: pp. 1-14. Refereed.
2019. Deborah Brautigam and Jyhjong Hwang. “Great Walls over African Rivers: Chinese Engagement in African Hydropower Projects.” Development Policy Review, 37, 3, 2019. Refereed.
2018. Deborah Brautigam, Tang Xiaoyang, Ying Xia, “What Kinds of Chinese ‘Geese’ Are Flying to Africa? Evidence from Chinese Manufacturing Firms.” Journal of African Economies, 27, 1, 2018. Refereed.
2018. Deborah Brautigam, Toni Weiss, and Tang Xiaoyang, “Latent Advantage, Complex Challenges: Industrial Policy and Chinese Linkages in Ethiopia’s Leather Sector.” China Economic Review, 48, 2018. Refereed.
2014. Deborah Brautigam and Kevin Gallagher, “Bartering Globalization: China’s Commodity-backed Finance in Africa and Latin America,” Global Policy, 5, 3, 2014. Refereed.
2014. Deborah Brautigam and Tang Xiaoyang, “’Going Global in Groups’: Structural Transformation and China’s Special Economic Zones Overseas,” World Development, 63. Refereed.
2013. Deborah Brautigam and Zhang Haisen, “Green Dreams: Myth and Reality in China’s Agricultural Investment in Africa,” Third World Quarterly, 34, 9, 2013: 1676-1696. Refereed.
2012. Deborah Brautigam, “China in Africa: Investors, not ‘Infestors’,” China Economic Quarterly, 16, 3 (September).
2012. Deborah Brautigam and Tang Xiaoyang, “Economic Statecraft in China’s New Overseas Special Economic Zones: Soft Power, Business, or Resource-Security?” International Affairs (July 2012). Refereed.
2012. Deborah Brautigam and Sigrid-Marianella Stensrud Ekman, “Rumours and Realities of Chinese Agricultural Engagement in Mozambique,” African Affairs, v. 111, n. 444 (July 2012) doi: 10.1093/afraf/ads030
2011. Deborah Brautigam. “Aid ‘With Chinese Characteristics’”: Chinese Foreign Aid and Development Finance Meet the OECD-DAC Aid Regime,” Journal of International Development v. 23, n. 5. Refereed
2011. Deborah Brautigam and Tang Xiaoyang. “African Shenzhen: China’s Special Economic Zones in Africa,” Journal of Modern African Studies v. 49, n. 1: Refereed
Translated and published as ‘Shenzhen africain : les zones économiques spéciales de la Chine en Afrique,’ in Outre-Terre [Revue européenne de géopolitique publiée par l'Académie européenne de géopolitique] n°30, January 2012.
2010. Deborah Brautigam “Looking East: Africa’s Newest Investment Partners,” Global Journal of Emerging Market Economies v. 2, no. 2: 173-188. Refereed
2009. Deborah Brautigam and Tang Xiaoyang. “China’s Agricultural Engagement in Africa: ‘Going Down to the Countryside’,” China Quarterly v. 199 Cambridge University Press: pp. 686-706. Refereed
2009. Deborah Brautigam. “China’s Challenge to the International Aid Architecture,” World Politics Review v. 1, n. 4 July/August 2009, pp. 1-10.
2007. Deborah Brautigam and Monique Segarra, “Difficult Partnerships: the World Bank, States, and NGOs.” Latin American Politics and Society v. 49, n. 4: 149-181. Refereed
2007. Deborah Brautigam, ”Katalysatorer og forbindelser: gode uformelle institutioner og den globale økonomi i fattige lande,” [Catalysts and Connections: Good Informal Institutions and Private Sector Development in Poor Countries] in Den Ny Verden [The New World] 2007: 1 (Copenhagen): 87-97.
2005. Deborah Brautigam, “Strategic Engagement: Markets, Transnational Networks, and Globalization in Mauritius,” Yale Journal of International Affairs v. 1, n. 1: 63-78. Refereed
2004. Deborah Brautigam, “The People’s Budget? Politics, Participation and Pro-Poor Policy,” Development Policy Review (U.K.), v. 22, n. 6, pp. 653-668. Refereed
2004. Deborah Brautigam and Steven Knack, “Foreign Aid, Institutions, and Governance in Sub-Saharan Africa,” Economic Development and Cultural Change. v. 52, n. 2 University of Chicago Press (January), pp. 255-286. Refereed
Reprinted in Nicholas Cheeseman, ed. African Politics, Volume 1: Africa and the World: Sovereignty, Dependency and Extraversion New York: Routledge (2016).
2003. Deborah Brautigam, “Close Encounters: Chinese Business Networks as Industrial Catalysts in Sub-Saharan Africa,” African Affairs: The Journal of the Royal African Society Oxford University Press, v. 102, n. 408 (July), pp. 447-467. Refereed
2002. Deborah Brautigam. “Building Leviathan: Revenue, State Capacity, and Governance,” in Lise Rakner and Mick Moore, eds. The New Politics of Taxation and Accountability, IDS Bulletin v. 33, n. 3 (July) (Institute for Development Studies, University of Sussex, U.K.), pp. 10-20.
2002. Deborah Brautigam, Lise Rakner, and Scott Taylor, “Business Associations and Growth Coalitions in Sub-Saharan Africa,” Journal of Modern African Studies Cambridge University Press, v. 40, n. 4 (December), pp. 519-547. Refereed
2000. Deborah Brautigam. "Foreign Aid and the Politics of Participation in Economic Policy Reform," Public Administration and Development v. 20 (October), pp. 253-264. Refereed
1999. Deborah Brautigam. "Mauritius: Rethinking the Miracle," Current History: A Journal of Contemporary World Affairs v. 98, n. 628, (May 1999), pp. 228-231.
Reprinted in F. Jeffress Ramsay, ed. Africa (Global Studies) (9th edition, 2001). Guilford, CT: Dushkin/McGraw-Hill Publishing Group.
1998. Deborah Brautigam. "Economic Takeoff in Africa?" Current History: A Journal of Contemporary World Affairs v. 97, n. 619 (May 1998), pp. 204-209.
Reprinted in Robert J. Griffiths, ed. Developing World: 99/00 (9th edition, 2000). Guilford, CT: Dushkin/McGraw-Hill.
Reprinted in F. Jeffress Ramsay, ed. Africa (Global Studies) (8th edition, 1999). Guilford, CT: Dushkin/McGraw-Hill Publishing Group.
Reprinted in The Punch (Lagos, Nigeria), May 19, 1998, pp. 16-17 (portions).
1997. Deborah Brautigam. "Institutions, Economic Policy, and Democratic Consolidation in Mauritius," Comparative Politics, v. 30, n. 1 (October 1997), pp. 45-62. Refereed.
1997. Deborah Brautigam. "Managing Economic Reform in New Democracies," Economic Reform Today, No. 4 (1997), pp. 27-32.
Translated and Reprinted as “La reforma económica en las nuevas democracias.” Reforma Económica Hoy. Washington, (4): 27-32, 1997
Translated and Reprinted as: “Yeni Demokrasilerde İktisadî Reformun Yönetilmesi,” in the journal of the Turkish Association for Liberal Thinking, Liberal Düşünce Topluluğu Sayi 22. 2003.
1997. Deborah Brautigam. "Substituting for the State: Institutions and Industrial Development in Eastern Nigeria," World Development v. 25, n. 7 (July), pp. 1063-1080. Refereed
1994. Deborah Brautigam. "Foreign Aid and the Export of Ideas: Chinese Development Aid in The Gambia and Sierra Leone," Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, v. 32, n. 3 (November), pp. 325-349. Refereed
1994. Deborah Brautigam. "What Can Africa Learn From Taiwan? Political Economy, Industrial Policy, and Adjustment," Journal of Modern African Studies, v. 32, n. 1 (Cambridge University Press) (March 1994), pp. 111-138. Refereed
1993. Deborah Brautigam. "South-South Technology Transfer: China's Kpatawee Rice Project in Liberia," World Development, v. 21, n. 12 (December, 1993), pp. 1989-2001. Refereed
1992. Deborah Brautigam. "Governance, Economy and Foreign Aid." Studies in Comparative International Development, v. 27, n. 3 (Fall 1992), pp. 1-25. Refereed
1992. Deborah Brautigam. "Land Rights and Agricultural Development in West Africa: A Case Study of Two Chinese Projects." Journal of Developing Areas, v. 27, n. 1 (October 1992), pp. 21-32. Refereed
2019. Deborah Brautigam, “A critical look at Chinese ‘debt-trap diplomacy’: the rise of a meme,” Area Development and Policy, 5:1 2019: pp. 1-14. Refereed.
2019. Deborah Brautigam and Jyhjong Hwang. “Great Walls over African Rivers: Chinese Engagement in African Hydropower Projects.” Development Policy Review, 37, 3, 2019. Refereed.
2018. Deborah Brautigam, Tang Xiaoyang, Ying Xia, “What Kinds of Chinese ‘Geese’ Are Flying to Africa? Evidence from Chinese Manufacturing Firms.” Journal of African Economies, 27, 1, 2018. Refereed.
2018. Deborah Brautigam, Toni Weiss, and Tang Xiaoyang, “Latent Advantage, Complex Challenges: Industrial Policy and Chinese Linkages in Ethiopia’s Leather Sector.” China Economic Review, 48, 2018. Refereed.
2014. Deborah Brautigam and Kevin Gallagher, “Bartering Globalization: China’s Commodity-backed Finance in Africa and Latin America,” Global Policy, 5, 3, 2014. Refereed.
2014. Deborah Brautigam and Tang Xiaoyang, “’Going Global in Groups’: Structural Transformation and China’s Special Economic Zones Overseas,” World Development, 63. Refereed.
2013. Deborah Brautigam and Zhang Haisen, “Green Dreams: Myth and Reality in China’s Agricultural Investment in Africa,” Third World Quarterly, 34, 9, 2013: 1676-1696. Refereed.
2012. Deborah Brautigam, “China in Africa: Investors, not ‘Infestors’,” China Economic Quarterly, 16, 3 (September).
2012. Deborah Brautigam and Tang Xiaoyang, “Economic Statecraft in China’s New Overseas Special Economic Zones: Soft Power, Business, or Resource-Security?” International Affairs (July 2012). Refereed.
2012. Deborah Brautigam and Sigrid-Marianella Stensrud Ekman, “Rumours and Realities of Chinese Agricultural Engagement in Mozambique,” African Affairs, v. 111, n. 444 (July 2012) doi: 10.1093/afraf/ads030
2011. Deborah Brautigam. “Aid ‘With Chinese Characteristics’”: Chinese Foreign Aid and Development Finance Meet the OECD-DAC Aid Regime,” Journal of International Development v. 23, n. 5. Refereed
2011. Deborah Brautigam and Tang Xiaoyang. “African Shenzhen: China’s Special Economic Zones in Africa,” Journal of Modern African Studies v. 49, n. 1: Refereed
Translated and published as ‘Shenzhen africain : les zones économiques spéciales de la Chine en Afrique,’ in Outre-Terre [Revue européenne de géopolitique publiée par l'Académie européenne de géopolitique] n°30, January 2012.
2010. Deborah Brautigam “Looking East: Africa’s Newest Investment Partners,” Global Journal of Emerging Market Economies v. 2, no. 2: 173-188. Refereed
2009. Deborah Brautigam and Tang Xiaoyang. “China’s Agricultural Engagement in Africa: ‘Going Down to the Countryside’,” China Quarterly v. 199 Cambridge University Press: pp. 686-706. Refereed
2009. Deborah Brautigam. “China’s Challenge to the International Aid Architecture,” World Politics Review v. 1, n. 4 July/August 2009, pp. 1-10.
2007. Deborah Brautigam and Monique Segarra, “Difficult Partnerships: the World Bank, States, and NGOs.” Latin American Politics and Society v. 49, n. 4: 149-181. Refereed
2007. Deborah Brautigam, ”Katalysatorer og forbindelser: gode uformelle institutioner og den globale økonomi i fattige lande,” [Catalysts and Connections: Good Informal Institutions and Private Sector Development in Poor Countries] in Den Ny Verden [The New World] 2007: 1 (Copenhagen): 87-97.
2005. Deborah Brautigam, “Strategic Engagement: Markets, Transnational Networks, and Globalization in Mauritius,” Yale Journal of International Affairs v. 1, n. 1: 63-78. Refereed
2004. Deborah Brautigam, “The People’s Budget? Politics, Participation and Pro-Poor Policy,” Development Policy Review (U.K.), v. 22, n. 6, pp. 653-668. Refereed
2004. Deborah Brautigam and Steven Knack, “Foreign Aid, Institutions, and Governance in Sub-Saharan Africa,” Economic Development and Cultural Change. v. 52, n. 2 University of Chicago Press (January), pp. 255-286. Refereed
Reprinted in Nicholas Cheeseman, ed. African Politics, Volume 1: Africa and the World: Sovereignty, Dependency and Extraversion New York: Routledge (2016).
2003. Deborah Brautigam, “Close Encounters: Chinese Business Networks as Industrial Catalysts in Sub-Saharan Africa,” African Affairs: The Journal of the Royal African Society Oxford University Press, v. 102, n. 408 (July), pp. 447-467. Refereed
2002. Deborah Brautigam. “Building Leviathan: Revenue, State Capacity, and Governance,” in Lise Rakner and Mick Moore, eds. The New Politics of Taxation and Accountability, IDS Bulletin v. 33, n. 3 (July) (Institute for Development Studies, University of Sussex, U.K.), pp. 10-20.
2002. Deborah Brautigam, Lise Rakner, and Scott Taylor, “Business Associations and Growth Coalitions in Sub-Saharan Africa,” Journal of Modern African Studies Cambridge University Press, v. 40, n. 4 (December), pp. 519-547. Refereed
2000. Deborah Brautigam. "Foreign Aid and the Politics of Participation in Economic Policy Reform," Public Administration and Development v. 20 (October), pp. 253-264. Refereed
1999. Deborah Brautigam. "Mauritius: Rethinking the Miracle," Current History: A Journal of Contemporary World Affairs v. 98, n. 628, (May 1999), pp. 228-231.
Reprinted in F. Jeffress Ramsay, ed. Africa (Global Studies) (9th edition, 2001). Guilford, CT: Dushkin/McGraw-Hill Publishing Group.
1998. Deborah Brautigam. "Economic Takeoff in Africa?" Current History: A Journal of Contemporary World Affairs v. 97, n. 619 (May 1998), pp. 204-209.
Reprinted in Robert J. Griffiths, ed. Developing World: 99/00 (9th edition, 2000). Guilford, CT: Dushkin/McGraw-Hill.
Reprinted in F. Jeffress Ramsay, ed. Africa (Global Studies) (8th edition, 1999). Guilford, CT: Dushkin/McGraw-Hill Publishing Group.
Reprinted in The Punch (Lagos, Nigeria), May 19, 1998, pp. 16-17 (portions).
1997. Deborah Brautigam. "Institutions, Economic Policy, and Democratic Consolidation in Mauritius," Comparative Politics, v. 30, n. 1 (October 1997), pp. 45-62. Refereed.
1997. Deborah Brautigam. "Managing Economic Reform in New Democracies," Economic Reform Today, No. 4 (1997), pp. 27-32.
Translated and Reprinted as “La reforma económica en las nuevas democracias.” Reforma Económica Hoy. Washington, (4): 27-32, 1997
Translated and Reprinted as: “Yeni Demokrasilerde İktisadî Reformun Yönetilmesi,” in the journal of the Turkish Association for Liberal Thinking, Liberal Düşünce Topluluğu Sayi 22. 2003.
1997. Deborah Brautigam. "Substituting for the State: Institutions and Industrial Development in Eastern Nigeria," World Development v. 25, n. 7 (July), pp. 1063-1080. Refereed
1994. Deborah Brautigam. "Foreign Aid and the Export of Ideas: Chinese Development Aid in The Gambia and Sierra Leone," Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, v. 32, n. 3 (November), pp. 325-349. Refereed
1994. Deborah Brautigam. "What Can Africa Learn From Taiwan? Political Economy, Industrial Policy, and Adjustment," Journal of Modern African Studies, v. 32, n. 1 (Cambridge University Press) (March 1994), pp. 111-138. Refereed
1993. Deborah Brautigam. "South-South Technology Transfer: China's Kpatawee Rice Project in Liberia," World Development, v. 21, n. 12 (December, 1993), pp. 1989-2001. Refereed
1992. Deborah Brautigam. "Governance, Economy and Foreign Aid." Studies in Comparative International Development, v. 27, n. 3 (Fall 1992), pp. 1-25. Refereed
1992. Deborah Brautigam. "Land Rights and Agricultural Development in West Africa: A Case Study of Two Chinese Projects." Journal of Developing Areas, v. 27, n. 1 (October 1992), pp. 21-32. Refereed