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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Douglas A. YatesPublisher: Pluto Press Imprint: Pluto Press Dimensions: Width: 13.50cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 21.50cm Weight: 0.331kg ISBN: 9780745330457ISBN 10: 0745330452 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 06 January 2012 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock  The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Power From Above 1. Foreign States and Trade Relations 2. Multinational Corporations and Nationalization 3. International Organization and Governance 4. Rentier States and Kleptocracy 5. Praetorian Regimes and Terror Part II: Power From Below 6. Journalists and Intellectuals 7. Political Parties and Elections 8. Armed Struggle for Independence 9. Popular Resistance and People Power 10. Unscrambling the Scramble for African Oil Bibliography IndexReviewsEssential reading for anyone seeking an understanding of the resource curse , the global exploitation of Africa's resources and the troubled state of African politics. Drawing on a detailed knowledge of the region, Douglas Yates does a remarkable job of exposing the predatory forces responsible for the continuing impoverishment of Africa's oil states - while also celebrating those heroic African figures who have resisted the onslaught. -- Michael Klare, Professor of Peace and World Security Studies, Hampshire College and author of Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet: The New Geopolitics of Energy Yates brilliantly scales the walls of the oil fortress in Africa and shines a light into the complex politics - local, national and global - of the oil and gas industry and offers some insight into possible routes out of the swamp of failed oil-development. -- Michael Watts, 'Class of 1963' Professor of Geography and Development Studies at the University of California, Berkeley Essential reading for anyone seeking an understanding of the 'resource curse', the global exploitation of Africa's resources and the troubled state of African politics. Drawing on a detailed knowledge of the region, Douglas Yates does a remarkable job of exposing the predatory forces responsible for the continuing impoverishment of Africa's oil states - while also celebrating those heroic African figures who have resisted the onslaught. -- Michael Klare, Professor of Peace and World Security Studies, Hampshire College and author of Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet: The New Geopolitics of Energy Yates brilliantly scales the walls of the oil fortress in Africa and shines a light into the complex politics - local, national and global - of the oil and gas industry and offers some insight into possible routes out of the swamp of failed oil-development. -- Michael Watts, 'Class of 1963' Professor of Geography and Development Studies at the University of California, Berkeley 'Essential reading for anyone seeking an understanding of the 'resource curse', the global exploitation of Africa's resources and the troubled state of African politics.' -- Michael Klare, Professor of Peace and World Security Studies, Hampshire College and author of Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet: The New Geopolitics of Energy 'Yates brilliantly scales the walls of the oil fortress in Africa and shines a light into the complex politics - local, national and global - of the oil and gas industry' -- Michael Watts, 'Class of 1963' Professor of Geography and Development Studies at the University of California, Berkeley Author InformationDouglas A. Yates is Professor of International Relations and Diplomacy at the American Graduate School, International and Comparative Politics at the American University of Paris, and Anglo-American Law at the University of Cergy-Pontoise. His most recent book is The French Oil Industry and the Corps des Mines in Africa (2009). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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