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The International politics of Africa's strategic minerals /
"This important study examines the role of Africa's strategic mineral resources in global defense and in the international economic system. Beginning with an overview of the situation as a whole, the author discusses the role of transnational corporations in the exploitation of Africa'...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2016.
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| Colección: | Bloomsbury academic collections. History and politics in the 20th century : postcolonialsim.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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