Natural Resources and Conflict Dynamics in Federal Countries

Oil & Gas and Intergovernmental Relations in Canada and Nigeria
2024
ISBN: 978-3-031-34987-4
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 362 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 601 g

Reihe: Federalism and Internal Conflicts

This book examines the dynamics of oil and gas conflicts within the context of federalism in Canada, an older federation with broadly a decentralized institutional design governing oil and gas, and Nigeria, a newer federation with a largely centralized design. It traces resource ownership, control or regulation, and revenue sharing conflict processes over time, and provides a focused comparison of conflict over the role of oil in intergovernmental fiscal transfers in both countries. In so doing, the book provides a much-needed corrective to conventional, static notions of oil conflict as either violent or nonviolent outcomes by carefully analyzing the evolution and ebbs and flows of conflicts hidden within conflict patterns that appear to be self-reinforcing and entrenched. The book demonstrates that (de)centralization dynamics, especially the continuities and shifts in federal institutional (structural and ideational) rules about oil itself,are central to the concept of conflict dynamics. It highlights the endogenous processes of federal institutional development, and lends credence to the historical institutionalists’ emphasis on the entanglement of institutions in their own transformation. Yet, the book also reveals that conflict dynamics did not emerge solely from the initial "compromise" between federal and provincial/state actors regarding the allocation of competence over oil. The renegotiation and reinterpretation of these rules over time, which entails a redistribution of power/resources in response to historical temporalities and shocks, political agency, and changing socioeconomic realities, also generated unique patterns of conflict and conflict resolution within the federal institutional arenas.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Okpanachi, Eyene

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Energie- & Versorgungswirtschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Clashing Cymbals: Federalism and Natural Resource Conflicts in Federations.- Chapter 2. Conceptual and Theoretical Foundations: Federalism, Conflict, and Historical Institutionalism.- Chapter 3. Federalism and Oil Conflict in Canada.- Chapter 4. Federalism and Oil Conflict in Nigeria.- Chapter 5. Oil Revenues, Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations, and Conflict in Canada and Nigeria.- Chapter 6. Contribution, Summary of Findings, and Future Research.

Über Autor(innen)

Eyene Okpanachi is Research Director of the BEKH National Qualitative Study, Department of Political Science, University of Alberta, Canada, and Research Fellow at the ICPS, University of South Wales, UK.