Ugandan Agency within China-Africa Relations - President Museveni and China's Foreign Policy in East Africa

In this book, Barney Walsh presents an in-depth study of China-s involvement in East Africa through specific focus on President Museveni of Uganda who has been uniquely influential in utilising China-s presence to shape regional security dynamics in his favour. Focussing primarily on the period 2010-2015, Walsh places the spotlight on the -Coalition of the Willing- formed between Uganda, Kenya and Rwanda, who undertook high-profile, exciting but controversial regional integration projects without Tanzania and Burundi. Key to those efforts were Chinese-funded mega-infrastructure projects, such as the Standard Gauge Railway and Uganda-s oil pipeline. Walsh-s analysis of the East African Community (EAC) reveals China-s role in ongoing security issues related to terrorism, resulting from the country-s role in small arms and light weapons (SALW) proliferation and the global ivory trade. Additionally, China is heavily implicated in the region-s -oil sector-, as it is a market for oil, involv