Gunning for security governance in a resource-rich African state? Interrogating militarisation in a democratic Nigeria
In: Conflict, security & development: CSD, Band 19, Heft 6, S. 603-621
ISSN: 1478-1174
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In: Conflict, security & development: CSD, Band 19, Heft 6, S. 603-621
ISSN: 1478-1174
In: Insight Turkey, Band 21, Heft 1, S. 11-23
ISSN: 2564-7717
In: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics
"Oil and the International Politics of the African State" published on by Oxford University Press.
In: Chronique ONU, Band 53, Heft 1, S. 41-42
ISSN: 2411-9911
In: UN Chronicle, Band 53, Heft 1, S. 41-42
ISSN: 1564-3913
In: The journal of modern African studies: a quarterly survey of politics, economics & related topics in contemporary Africa, Band 53, Heft 2, S. 252-254
ISSN: 1469-7777
In: South African journal of international affairs: journal of the South African Institute of International Affairs, Band 22, Heft 2, S. 165-184
ISSN: 1938-0275
In: Review of African political economy, Band 41, Heft 140
ISSN: 1740-1720
This article explores the Post-Amnesty Programme (PAP), launched in 2009 following the decision of some insurgent militia leaders in the Niger Delta to 'drop their weapons in exchange for peace' with Nigeria's federal government. It addresses the following questions: how has the PAP been shaped by the politics of the Nigerian state, and elite and transnational oil interests? Is the trade-off between peace and justice sustainable when such peace fails to address the roots of the grievances? The article argues that the PAP is an unsustainable state-imposed peacebuilding project to preserve the conditions for oil extraction by local, national and global actors.
In: The journal of modern African studies: a quarterly survey of politics, economics & related topics in contemporary Africa, Band 50, Heft 4, S. 727-728
ISSN: 1469-7777
In: Democratization, Band 18, Heft 2, S. 366-387
ISSN: 1743-890X
In: Democratization, Band 18, Heft 2, S. 366-388
ISSN: 1351-0347
In: Development dialogue, Heft 57, S. 141-162
ISSN: 0345-2328
Essay in a symposium on "The United Nations and Regional Challenges in Africa -- 50 Years After Dag Hammarskjold.". Adapted from the source document.
In: Review of African political economy, Band 37, Heft 126, S. 483-495
ISSN: 0305-6244
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In: Review of African political economy, Band 37, Heft 126
ISSN: 1740-1720
This article interrogates the framing of the resource curse as a central causal mechanism in the resource abundance–conflict nexus in Africa. It is argued that explaining such conflicts on the basis of the ways natural resources either act as an incentive/motive for rebel groups, or erode and weaken states, does not adequately capture the complex histories, dimensions and transnational linkages to civil conflict in Africa. The article lays bare the attempts by a hegemonic discourse to obfuscate the reality of the fundamental and transnational underpinnings of the resource–conflict nexus. It is argued that the resource curse perspective cannot fully explain conflict in African oil states, and rather, a case is made for an alternative model based on radical political economy which lays bare the class relations, contradictions and conflicts rooted in the subordination of the continent and its resources to transnational processes and elites embedded in globalised capitalist relations.
In: Africa development: quarterly journal of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa = Afrique et développement : revue trimestrielle du Conseil pour le Développement de la Recherche en Sciences Sociales en Afrique, Band 34, Heft 2
ISSN: 2521-9863
This paper explores the complex roots and dimensions of the Niger Delta conflict which has escalated from ethnic minority protests against the federal Nigerian State-Oil Multinationals' alliance in the 1990's to the current insurgency that has attracted worldwide attention. It also raises some conceptual issues drawn from 'snapshots' taken from various perspectives in grappling with the complex roots of the oil- related conflict in the paradoxically oil-rich but impoverished region as an important step in a nuanced reading of the local, national and international ramifications of the conflict and its implications for Nigeria's development. The conflict is then located both in the struggle of ethnic minority groups for local autonomy and the control of their natural resources (including oil), and the contradictions spawned by the transnational production of oil in the region. The transition from resistance – as-protest – to insurgency, as represented by attacks on state and oil company targets by the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), is also critically analyzed.