ANGOLA & NIGERIA
Oil Linkages: State-Led Development
Angola and Nigeria illustrate how oil-led industrial policy can still plant the seeds of long-term structural transformation. Building skills, capacity, and domestic industries takes time, but the foundations laid today may only reveal their full value decades from now….
Other Opinions and Blogs Written
♦ Oil Linkages: State-Led Development in Angola and Nigeria Phenomenal World. 2 March 2024.
♦ Botswana’s diamond strategy: Harnessing SOEs for economic development and value addition Africa In Fact. January 2024.
♦ Beyond Agrarian Transitions in Africa (with Jasper Ayelazuno) PPE Sydney. 14 March 2023.
♦ Opportunity for whom: The EU-Africa partnership and sustainable energy transitions Euractiv. 16 June 2021.
♦ A Window of Opportunity for African Fossil Fuels Project Syndicate. 16 October 2019.
♦ World Order, Energy and the Future of Capitalism (with Tim DiMuzio) European Financial Review. 2 May 2017.
♦ How revenues from oil and gas in Africa can be made to work for ordinary people Interviewed by Jeremy Lind for The Conversation. 18 July 2016.
♦ Is Natural Resource-Based Development Still Realistic for Africa? Blog entry for CSI – Newcastle University, E-International Relations. 10 February 2016. Re-published by Hurst Publishers, 15 February 2016).
♦ Review of Celeste Hicks ‘Africa’s New Oil’ Africa@LSE Blog. 5 February 2016.
♦ Thinking About Developmental States Beyond East Asia Blog entry for CSI – Newcastle University, E-International Relations. 9 March 2015.
♦ The Power of IPE for Researching Energy and Natural Resources Blog entry for CSI – Newcastle University, E-International Relations. 24 April 2014.
♦ Jesse Ovadia: A Member’s Experience in Nigeria Political Studies Association News. 4 April 2014.
♦ Research on Local Content in Angola and Nigeria Blog Entry for the Local Content Master Class Interactive Blog, Local Content Solutions. 15 January 2013.
My Published Books
Petro-Developmental State in Africa
Focusing on local content in the oil and oil service sectors and the changing accumulation strategies of the domestic elite, this book questions what kinds of development are possible through natural resource extraction and argues that a new form of developmental state-the ‘petro- developmental state’-may…
Natural Resource-Based Development in Africa
This book places a particular emphasis on the actors that help us understand the extent to which resources could be transformed into broader developmental outcomes. Based on a wide variety of primary sources and fieldwork, including in-person interviews and participant observations…
Energy, Capitalism, and World Order
This original, timely and innovative collection is the first to offer critical IPE perspectives on the interconnections between energy, capitalism and the future of world order. The authors discuss the importance of energy for our understanding of the global political economy, climate change and…
Developmental States Beyond East Asia
New policies, institutional configurations, and state-market relations are emerging outside of East Asia, as new developmental states move beyond the historical experience of East Asian development. The authors argue for the continued relevance of the ‘developmental state’ and for understanding globalization…
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