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Title: | America, China and the Scramble for Africa's Oil |
Authors: | Klare, Michael Volman, Daniel |
Year: | 2006 |
Periodical: | Review of African Political Economy |
Volume: | 33 |
Issue: | 108 |
Period: | June |
Pages: | 297-309 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Africa China United States |
Subjects: | military assistance geopolitics Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Economics and Trade international relations |
External links: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03056240600843048 http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=4388969B6BCF780D3CEA |
Abstract: | As a result of growing US reliance on African oil and the uncertain security climate in the region, the US Department of Defense (DoD) is paying closer attention to Africa, and there is a noticeable increase in US military activities in the region, including the establishment or expansion of military aid programmes and the provision of US arms, military equipment and technical assistance. To a considerable extent, this aid is intended to enhance the internal security capabilities of friendly African States, so that they can better control the ethnic, religious and factional divisions that roil many of these countries. The very act of building military ties with African countries has evolved into a kind of low-level military competition with China for the loyalty of local elites. China, too, appears to be seeking ties of this sort, through its own military aid programmes and there is a growing concern in US Congress and the DoD over the possibility that China will pre-empt American firms in the development of promising oil fields and compete with the US for the loyalty of local governments. These developments bear close watching, given the dangers this situation could pose for the States and peoples of Africa. Notes, ref., sum. [ASC Leiden abstract] |