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Title:The political economy of oil and 'rebellion' in Nigeria's Niger Delta
Author:Nwajiaku-Dahou, Kathryn
Year:2012
Periodical:Review of African Political Economy (ISSN 0305-6244)
Volume:39
Issue:132
Pages:295-313
Language:English
Geographic term:Nigeria
Subjects:Niger Delta conflict
political economy
petroleum industry
illicit trade
External link:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03056244.2012.688805
Abstract:The escalation in armed attacks on Nigeria's oil industry and the massive expansion in oil theft generated a veritable industry in the study of the political economy of war dominated by public-choice strands. Critical scholarship on the Niger Delta challenges this work for its neglect of history in explaining the shift from peaceful protest in the 1990s to armed struggle. Yet taking history seriously need not blind us to the 'critical breaks'. Nigeria's transition to civilian rule in 1999 brought State and non-State actors into a complicit union as rebellion and oil bunkering consolidated a pre-existing parallel economy. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. in English and French. [Journal abstract]
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