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Oil and Insurgency in the Niger Delta: Managing the Complex Politics of Petro-violence
Cyril Ed.
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Description for Oil and Insurgency in the Niger Delta: Managing the Complex Politics of Petro-violence
Hardback. Analyses the causes, dynamics and politics underpinning oil-related violence in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. This book examines the role of oil as a commodity of global strategic significance, addressing the relationship between oil, energy security and development in the Niger Delta. Editor(s): Obi, Cyril; Rustad, Siri Aas. Series: Africa Now. Num Pages: 272 pages, map. BIC Classification: 1HFDR; GTJ; KNBP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 241 x 157 x 21. Weight in Grams: 544.
The recent escalation in the violent conflict in the Niger Delta has brought the region to the forefront of international energy and security concerns. This book analyses the causes, dynamics and politics underpinning oil-related violence in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. It focuses on the drivers of the conflict, as well as the ways the crises spawned by the political economy of oil and contradictions within Nigeria's ethnic politics have contributed to the morphing of initially poorly coordinated, largely non-violent protests into a pan-Delta insurgency. Approaching the issue from a number of perspectives, the book offers the ... Read more
The recent escalation in the violent conflict in the Niger Delta has brought the region to the forefront of international energy and security concerns. This book analyses the causes, dynamics and politics underpinning oil-related violence in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. It focuses on the drivers of the conflict, as well as the ways the crises spawned by the political economy of oil and contradictions within Nigeria's ethnic politics have contributed to the morphing of initially poorly coordinated, largely non-violent protests into a pan-Delta insurgency. Approaching the issue from a number of perspectives, the book offers the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Series
Africa Now
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848138087
SKU
V9781848138087
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About Cyril Ed.
Cyril Obi is a Senior Researcher, and Leader, Research Cluster on Conflict, Displacement and Transformation at the Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, Sweden. He is a contributing editor to the Review of African Political Economy, and is on the editorial board of African Journal of International Affairs, the African Security Review, and the Review of Leadership in Africa. His most recent ... Read more
Reviews for Oil and Insurgency in the Niger Delta: Managing the Complex Politics of Petro-violence
Obi and Rustad bring together some of the world's leading analysts on the Niger Delta insurgency for a gripping expose of the roots of the conflict and how actors in the region have responded to the crisis. The authors offer a deep, sobering, and multi-dimensional understanding of how the Niger Delta's descent into conflict came about and why it persists. ... Read more