New Scramble for Africa

Name: New Scramble for Africa
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ISBN: 9780745647852

ISBN-10: 0745647855

ISBN-13: 9780745647852

Edition: 2011

Authors: Pï¿½draig Carmody

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Once marginalized in the world economy, the past decade has seen Africa emerge as a major global supplier of crucial raw materials like oil, uranium and coltan. With its share of world trade and investment now rising and the availability of natural resources falling, the continent finds itself at the centre of a battle to gain access to and control of its valuable natural assets. China's role in Africa has loomed particularly large in recent years, but there is now a new scramble taking place involving a wider range of established and emerging economic powers from the EU and US to Japan, Brazil and Russia.This book explores the nature of resource and market competition in Africa and the…

Book details

List price: $15.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Polity Press
Publication date: 4/18/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.836



List of Figures and Tables


Acknowledgements


List of Abbreviations


Resource Map of Africa


Introduction



The New Scramble, Geography and Development



Old Economic Power Interests and Strategies in Africa



Chinese Interests and Strategies in Africa




Other New Economic Power Interests and Relations with Africa



Driving the Global Economy: West African and Sahelian Oil



Powering and Connecting the Global Economy through Conflict: Uranium and Coltan



Furnishing and Feeding the World? Timber, Biofuels, Plants, Food and Fisheries



The Asian Scramble for Investment and Markets: Evidence and Impacts in Zambia with Godfrey Hampwaye



Can Africans Unscramble the Continent?


Conclusion: The New Scramble in Perspective


Notes


Bibliography


Index