The International politics of Africa's strategic minerals. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Oye Ogunbadejo.
• Authors: Ogunbadejo, Oye
• Contents: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; 1 African strategic minerals in the international system; Basic pointers to the politics of Africa's minerals; The special case of uranium; 2 The exploitation of Africa's strategic minerals: some theoretical explanations revisited; The role of the TNCs; On the theories of the 'Matthew effect, ' dependency, core-periphery, and imperialism; Public ownership: the way out?; Adapting to the crisis of capitalism; 3 Africa's strategic minerals and the North-South system; Issues in the political economy The politics of Africa's strategic mineralsThe West and the primacy of geopolitics; Capitalism and the supply and demand equation, I; Sysmin and Africa's strategic minerals; Impact of Africa's growing nationalism: the supply and demand equation, II; External production and stockpiles of strategic minerals: implications for Africa; 4 The international politics of Africa's uranium; The West and southern Africa's uranium; i. Namibia; ii. South Africa; Namibia and the international political system; On the case of grand larceny; Black Africa's uranium; Impact of external production of uranium 5 Uranium, South Africa's nuclear capability and world peaceThe place of South African and Namibian uranium in Pretoria's nuclear drive; South Africa and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty; The collaboration of the West in South Africa's nuclear development; Need South Africa become a nuclear power?; South Africa's nuclear drive and black African states; South Africa and SATO; 6 Uranium, African states and nuclear proliferation; Nuclear proliferation and African states; The South African factor; Africa's uranium and nuclear proliferation; The place of uranium in Nigeria's nuclear ambitions The nuclear debate revisited7 Africa's strategic minerals in perspective; Reconciling the radical and the bourgeois; The West and Africa's strategic minerals; Uranium and the global system; Africa's strategic minerals and the future trends in international politics; Index
• Publisher Details: London : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 327.1/11; Mineral industries -- Political aspects -- Africa; Strategic materials -- Political aspects -- Africa; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / International; POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General; Diplomatic relations; Mineral industries -- Political aspects; Strategic materials -- Political aspects; Africa -- Foreign relations -- 1960-; Africa; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781474290548
• Related ISBNs: 147429054X; 9781474290531; 1474290531
• Notes: Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 2, 2016).
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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