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 Conference paper |
 Leiden University catalogue |
| Title: | Africa and energy security: global issues, local responses |
| Editors: | Beri, Ruchita Sinha, Uttam Kumar |
| Year: | 2009 |
| Pages: | 260 |
| Language: | English |
| City of publisher: | New Delhi |
| Publisher: | Academic Foundation in association with the Institute of Defence Studies and Analyses |
| ISBN: | 8171887546; 9788171887545 |
| Geographic terms: | Africa Angola Chad Nigeria Sudan India China |
| Subjects: | petroleum energy policy foreign policy South-South relations conference papers (form) 2008 |
| Abstract: | A growing concern over the availability of stable supplies of oil has given rise to a new emphasis on 'energy security' in many regions of the world. The present volume, which sprang from an international conference on Africa and energy security (New Delhi, June 2008), deals with Africa's role in the global search for oil and investigates the multiple consequences of energy extraction and production across the African continent. The first section reflects on India's approach towards Africa amidst Africa's growing importance vis-à-vis its vast energy reserves (papers by Anand Sharma, Nalin Surie, James Shikwati, Ruchita Beri, Mike Musaka). The second section discusses various aspects of debates on the politics of oil in Africa, the opportunities and challenges presented by Africa's commodity boom, and the rise of China as an oil power in Africa (Girijesh Pant, Daniel Bach, Ricardo Soares de Oliveira, Chris Alden). The third section contains case studies of the political and social impact of oil wealth in Sudan, Nigeria, Angola and Chad (Cyril I. Obi, Asim I. El Moghraby, Ana Cristina Alves, Karim Bathily, Alsir Sidahmed). [ASC Leiden abstract] |
