The Geopolitics of Resource Wars
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The Geopolitics of Resource Wars

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This new book provides fresh and in-depth perspectives on so-called 'resource wars'.

Highlighting the multiple forms of violence accompanying the history of resources exploitation, business practices supporting predatory regimes, insurgent groups and terrorists, this is an authoritative guide to the struggle for control of the world's resources.

It includes key conceptual chapters and covers a wide range of case studies including:

* the geopolitics of oil control in the Middle East, Central Asia and Columbia,

* spaces of governance and 'petro-violence' in Nigeria

* 'blood diamonds' and other minerals associated with conflicts in Sierra Leone and the Congo.This book was previously published as a special issue of the journal Geopolitics.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2017
ISBN
9781135768058
Edition
1
Topic
Politik & Internationale Beziehungen
Subtopic
Politik

Index

AFDL (Alliance des Forces Démocratiques pour la Libération du Congo-Zaire), 10, 15, 244, 255-6, 269n55, 270n64
Afghanistan, 9, 14, 75, 111, 118, 120, 128-9, 132, 135n47, 140, 150, 159n100, 179, 188, 203
AirScan, 90-91, 97-8
Al Qaeda see terrorism
Albright, Madeleine, 260
Angola, 36, 37 table 4, 39, 76n16 (Cabinda enclave. 11, 17, 19 table 2. 43; and diamonds, 8, 42-3, 45-7; oil, 12, 51, 199 table 1; oil companies in, 13, 15; rebel activity in, 244-5, 254258 see also UNITA)
Annan, Kofi, 1, 237
Azerbaijan, 75, 141-2, 146-9, 155n30, 157n70. 157n81, 161, 164, 166-9, 171, 173-82. 184n33, 199 table 1. 200
Baku, 139-44. 148, 161, 164, 167-8. 173, 178
Baku-Ceyhan pipeline, 149
Bill Laden, Osama, 51, 109, 116, 119, 129, 132
Birabi, Naaku Paul, 68, 71 see also Ogoni State Representatives Association (OSRA)
Black Sea, 148. 156n51, 169-70
borders, 219, 237, 252-3, 256-7, 259 (claims and disputes, 20, 126, 138. 161, 166, 169-181, 182, 259); 'porous borders', 11, 15, 29-31, 45, 46, 219, 236); rebel groups and, 7, 13, 16, 103, 104, 219, 229, 237; resource mobility and, 82, 130, 150, 151, 169; resource proximity to, 8, 15, 46, 111, 112, 181)
Botswana, 9, 32, 35 table 3, 37 table 4, 42, 46
boundaries, 5, 71, 110-11, 138,...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. The Geopolitical Economy of 'Resource Wars'
  6. Natural Resources and Civil Strife: A Two-Stage Process
  7. Resource Curse? Governmentality, Oil and Power in the Niger Delta, Nigeria
  8. Oil and the Political Economy of Conflict in Colombia and Beyond: A Linkages Approach
  9. From Free Oil to 'Freedom Oil': Terrorism, War and US Geopolitics in the Persian Gulf
  10. Great Game or Grubby Game? The Struggle for Control of the Caspian
  11. Resources and Conflict in the Caspian Sea
  12. Coercive Western Energy Security Strategies: 'Resource Wars' as a New Threat to Global Security
  13. The Geopolitics of Conflict and Diamonds in Sierra Leone
  14. Identity, Space and the Political Economy of Conflict in Central Africa
  15. Notes on contributors
  16. Index