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Oil and Politics in the Gulf of Guinea
Ricardo M. Soares de Oliveira
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Description for Oil and Politics in the Gulf of Guinea
Paperback. Investigates the paradox at the heart of modern Gulf of Guinea politics. This study aims to bring out the extent to which oil has forged the interaction of the region with the world economy and how the ongoing expansion of the oil sector will deepen this pivotal role. Num Pages: 380 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBF; JPS; KNBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 23. Weight in Grams: 506.
This book investigates the paradox at the heart of present-day Gulf of Guinea politics. The governance crisis festering throughout every one of the region's states ought to discourage outsiders from capital-intensive, long-term commercial involvement and cast doubts over the political survival of ruling cliques. However, the presence of large petroleum deposits radically changes this equation: the negative dynamics of state failure and widespread violence affect the general population but spare the oil nexus. The material and political resources made available by oil allow states to survive regardless of bad policies, facilitate their governing elites' material success regardless of reckless management, ... Read more
This book investigates the paradox at the heart of present-day Gulf of Guinea politics. The governance crisis festering throughout every one of the region's states ought to discourage outsiders from capital-intensive, long-term commercial involvement and cast doubts over the political survival of ruling cliques. However, the presence of large petroleum deposits radically changes this equation: the negative dynamics of state failure and widespread violence affect the general population but spare the oil nexus. The material and political resources made available by oil allow states to survive regardless of bad policies, facilitate their governing elites' material success regardless of reckless management, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
380
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781850658580
SKU
9781850658580
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About Ricardo M. Soares de Oliveira
Ricardo Soares de Oliveira is Associate Professor in Comparative Politics, University of Oxford, fellow of St Peter's College, Oxford, and fellow of the Global Public Policy Institute, Berlin. He is the author of Oil and Politics in the Gulf of Guinea and co-editor of China Returns to Africa, both of which are published by Hurst.
Reviews for Oil and Politics in the Gulf of Guinea
'A remarkable and extraordinarily ambitious book. ... It is clearly and attractively written, and makes absorbing reading. ... Represents a significant contribution to knowledge, both in the extraordinary amount of material that the author has unearthed, and in his ability to integrate this material into an original and coherent whole.'
Christopher Clapham, Centre of African Studies, Cambridge University
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Christopher Clapham, Centre of African Studies, Cambridge University
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