Extractive Economies and Conflicts in the Global South

Multi-Regional Perspectives on Rentier Politics

Kenneth Omeje

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• eBook ISBN:
  9781351158381
• Subtopic: Politics
• Index: Politics & International Relations

The majority of developing countries in the Global South are evidently rich in natural resources, but paradoxically blighted by excruciating poverty and conflicts. This paradox of deprivation and war in the midst of plenteous resources has been the subject of great debate in international political economy in contemporary history. This book contributes to the debate by examining the underlying structures, actors and contexts of rentier politics and how they often produce and aggravate conflicts in the various extractive economies and regions of the Global South. The book critically explores the theories of rentier economies and natural resource conflicts, as well as the practical ramifications of rentier politics in the Global South with all their resonance for political economy and security in the Global North.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Dedication
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Figures and Tables
• Acknowledgements
• List of Abbreviations
• About the Authors
• 1 Extractive Economies and Conflicts in the Global South: Re-Engaging Rentier Theory and Politics
• 2 Rentier Politics, Extractive Economies and Conflict in the Global South: Emerging Ramifications and Theoretical Exploration
• 3 Anatomy of an Oil Insurgency: Violence and Militants in the Niger Delta, Nigeria
• 4 Nationalization versus Indigenization of the Rentier Space: Oil and Conflicts in Nigeria
• 5 Greed or Grievance?: Diamonds, Rent-Seeking and the Civil War in Sierra Leone (1991–2002)
• 6 Politics and Oil in Sudan
• 7 São Tomé and Príncipe: The Troubles of Oil in an Aid-Dependent Micro-State
• 8 Rentier Politics and Low Intensity Conflicts in the DRC: The Case of Kasai and Katanga Provinces
• 9 Thugs' Paradise, Agencies' Guinea Pig and the Natural Resource Intrigue: The Civil War in Liberia
• 10 Resource Exploitation, Repression and Resistance in the Sahara-Sahel: The Rise of the Rentier State in Algeria, Chad and Niger
• 11 Oil Sovereignties in the Mexican Gulf and Nigerian Niger Delta
• 12 Extractive Resources and the Rentier Space: A South American Perspective
• 13 Rentier States and War-Making: The United Arab Emirates and Iraq in Comparative Perspective
• 14 Rethinking the Rentier Syndrome: Oil and Resource Conflict in the Persian Gulf
• Index