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Katz-Lavigne, Sarah:
The renegotiation window : Resource contract renegotiations in the mining industry in Africa from 2000 to 2013.
In: Resources Policy.
Bd. 51
(2017)
.
- S. 22-30.
ISSN 1873-7641
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resourpol.2016.11.001
Abstract
This article explores the question of why countries in Africa increasingly took the decision to review and renegotiate their contracts with international mining companies during the period from 2000 to 2013. A policy window opened for African governments to renegotiate their mining contracts, brought on by the coming together of a problem, a set of policies, and developments in the political stream at the international, regional, and domestic levels. I suggest several explanations to account for these favourable dynamics at all three levels. The fact that African countries were briefly situated within a certain international and regional environment, combined with specific characteristics at the domestic level – including emergence from conflict and/or regime change, and a strong civil society presence calling for companies to sign agreements more in line with country interests – is an important determinant of renegotiation decisions. Cross-country comparisons and detailed case studies from Liberia and the Democratic Republic of Congo provide greater insight into these processes. This iterative, heuristic case-study approach yields greater insight into why some African countries decided to renegotiate their mining contracts. Yet the empirical evidence highlights the limitations to African countries' newfound “window of opportunity.” The recent drop in commodity prices, moreover, suggests that this window has closed and may not reopen for some time.
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| Publikationsform: | Artikel in einer Zeitschrift |
|---|---|
| Begutachteter Beitrag: | Ja |
| Keywords: | Natural resource governance; Mining contracts; Sub-Saharan Africa; Limited statehood; Structural power |
| Institutionen der Universität: | Fakultäten > Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät > Lehrstuhl Soziologie Afrikas > Lehrstuhl Soziologie Afrikas - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Jana Hönke Fakultäten Fakultäten > Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät Fakultäten > Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät > Lehrstuhl Soziologie Afrikas |
| Titel an der UBT entstanden: | Nein |
| Themengebiete aus DDC: | 300 Sozialwissenschaften > 300 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie 300 Sozialwissenschaften > 320 Politikwissenschaft 300 Sozialwissenschaften > 330 Wirtschaft |
| Eingestellt am: | 12 Nov 2019 09:27 |
| Letzte Änderung: | 31 Jan 2022 07:24 |
| URI: | https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/53182 |