Oil and Politics in the Gulf of Guinea

Name: Oil and Politics in the Gulf of Guinea
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ISBN: 9780231700290

ISBN-10: 0231700296

ISBN-13: 9780231700290

Edition: 2007

Authors: Ricardo Soares de Oliveira, Ricardo Soares de Oliveira

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The Gulf of Guinea, on Africa's Atlantic coast, supplies fifteen per cent of America's oil and has recently experienced an immense inflow of investment. But why are American, European, and Asian oil companies enthusiastically committing tens of billions of dollars of long-term investment to the Gulf of Guinea's failing states, which are characterized by ruthless elites, recurrent warfare, and some of the world's most detrimental development practices? The answer is the Gulf's large petroleum reserves, which allow the elites of Angola, Equatorial Guinea, and Nigeria to reap the benefits of international investment and expertise regardless of their behavior. Their macabre partnership with…

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List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 10/5/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

james mayall is emeritus Sir Patrick Sheehy professor of International Relations and fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University.Ricardo Soares de Oliveira is university lecturer in Comparative Politics, University of Oxford, fellow of St. Peter´s College, University of Oxford, and fellow of the Global Public Policy Institute, Berlin.



Acknowledgements


List of Abbreviations


List of Tables


Map


Petroleum and Politics in the Gulf of Guinea: an Introduction



Petroleum and the Successful Failed State in the Gulf of Guinea



The Idea of the State and its "Crisis" in the Developing World



The Petro-State



The African Postcolonial State



The Successful Failed State in the Gulf of Guinea



The Governance of the Oil State



Governing the Boom-Era State



Governing Decline and "Privatization"



Governing Space and Violence



The Petroleum Elites



Elites, Patronage and Leadership



Kleptocracy and Reform



Oil Companies and the State in the Gulf of Guinea: a History



The Private Sector and the Colonial State



Post-Independence Turmoil



National Assertiveness and the Boom Years



Opportunity and Uncertainty in the Oil Frontier



Technical Breakthroughs and the Investment Calculus



"Making it Big" in the New Oil Provinces



Past Practices and Present Woes



Locked in: the Gulf of Guinea, Oil and the International System



The World and the Culf of Guinea: Progressive versus Realpolitik Agendas



The Gulf of Guinea and the World: Dependence, Opportunity, Limits


Conclusion


Bibliography


Index