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Title

Extractive economies and conflicts in the global South : multi-regional perspectives on rentier politics / edited by Kenneth Omeje.

Publication

Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2008.

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Additional Authors

Omeje, Kenneth C.

Description

xvii, 251 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Subject

• Petroleum industry and trade > Developing countries > Case studies
• Mineral industries > Developing countries > Case studies
• Social conflict > Developing countries > Case studies
• Wealth > Developing countries > Case studies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Extractive economies and conflicts in the global South : re-engaging rentier theory and politics / Kenneth Omeje -- Rentier politics, extractive economies and conflict in the global South : emerging ramifications and theoretical exploration / Usman A. Tar -- Anatomy of an oil insurgency : violence and militants in the Niger Delta, Nigeria / Michael Watts -- Nationalization versus indigenization of the rentier space : oil and conflicts in Nigeria / Ukoha Ukiwo -- Greed or grievance? Diamonds, rent-seeking and the civil war in Sierra Leone (1991-2002) / John M. Kabia -- Politics and oil in Sudan / Peter Woodward -- São Tomé and Principe : the troubles of oil in an aid-dependent micro-state / Gerhard Seibert -- Rentier politics and low intensity conflicts in the DRC : the case of Kasai and Katanga provinces / Germain Tshibambe Ngoie and Kenneth Omeje -- Thugs' paradise, agencies' guinea pig and the natural resource intrigue : the civil war in Liberia / T. Debey Sayndee -- Resource exploitation, repression and resistance in the Sahara-Sahel : the rise of the rentier state in Algeria, Chad and Niger / Jeremy Keenan -- Oil sovereignties in the Mexican Gulf and Nigerian Niger Delta / Anna Zalik -- Extractive resources and the rentier space : a South American perspective / Julia Buxton -- Rentier states and war-making : the United Arab Emirates and Iraq in comparative perspective / Rolf Schwarz -- Rethinking the rentier syndrome : oil and resource conflict in the Persian Gulf / Dauda Abubakar.

Call Number

JFE 08-185

ISBN

• 9780754670759 (alk. paper)
• 0754670759 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2007031233

OCLC

163593438

Title

Extractive economies and conflicts in the global South : multi-regional perspectives on rentier politics / edited by Kenneth Omeje.

Imprint

Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2008.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Omeje, Kenneth C.

Research Call Number

JFE 08-185