South Africa's minerals
The Achilles heel of Western economic security
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3695585 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hanns W Maull (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1986 |
| Volume | 62 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 619-626 |
| Publication date | 1986-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-5850 • E-ISSN: 1468-2346 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2618555 |
| OpenAlex | W1986428457 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
The Southern African region is the Persian Gulf of strategic minerals. Just as the Gulf, by virtue of its large share of proven, probable and possible reserves, its huge production capacity and its comparatively low production costs, occupies a key position among oil supplies for the industrialized countries, so Southern Africa and the Republic of South Africa in particular have enormous resources and production capacities in a number of important non-fuel minerals, such as chromium, manganese, vanadium and platinum-group metals-minerals which play an indispensable role in modern industrial production. The growing tensions in South Africa, its destabilizing policies within the larger region and the accumulating pressure of the industrialized democracies for the application of sanctions against apartheid could therefore pose a new risk to the economic security of the Western countries. To define that risk more closely, and to develop an adequate response, three issues have to be explored. In the first place, how great is the importance of the potentially endangered non-fuel mineral supplies from Southern Africa to the OECD economies? Secondly, how vulnerable are the OECD countries to major disruptions in supply? And thirdly, how likely are such disruptions, and what forms might they take
Geography · Heel · Anatomy · Medicine · Natural Resources and Economic Development
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,11 |
| Citation span | 1988 - 2020 (33) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |