The International Politics of Africa’s Strategic Minerals

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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’s mineral resources and explains the implications of the theories of Matthew Effect, dependency, core-periphery, and imperialism. Among the issues Ogunbadejo considers are the political economy of strategic minerals; the political significance of American, European, and Soviet dependence on these minerals vis-a-vis their relations with the producer nations; and the impact of geopolitical considerations on U.S./South African relations. 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 minerals The 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 peace The 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 revisited 7 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