Oil Crimes, National Security, and the Nigerian State, 1999–2015
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6277970 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gerald E Ezirim (0000-0001-8918-5352, University of Nigeria, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 80-100 |
| Publication date | 2018-03-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Japanese Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1468-1099 • E-ISSN: 1474-0060 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1468109917000238 |
| OpenAlex | W2789263081 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 11 |
The discovery of oil in commercial quantity in Nigeria in 1956 ushered in a period characterized by endemic crises of oil rents management and corporate insecurity. From 1999, democratic renewal, backed by excess oil rents returns, made the popular democratic control of oil wealth critical. The consequent rentier management of oil wealth, excluding the citizens and their huge expectations occasioned threats to national security, thus punctuating limited democratic control of oil wealth, or lack of it. Employing the ex-post-facto research design, primary data for the study were generated from focus group discussions with experts in the oil sector, while other sources were from observations of the Nigerian Navy, Nigerian Customs Service, Nigerian Police, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Nigerian Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, National Bureau of Statistics, and the Central Bank of Nigeria. Logical induction was used to analyze the data. Anchored on a frustration-aggression conceptual and theoretical framework, the study found that deprivation of oil benefits to Nigerian citizens manifested in illegal oil bunkering, pipeline vandalization, cross-border smuggling of petroleum products, attacks on oil installations, kidnapping, and piracy, with attendant threats to national security
Business · Cartel · Corporation · Democracy · Economic growth · Economic rent · Economics · Incentive · Market economy · National security · Petroleum industry · Political science · Politics · Engineering · Law · Natural Resources and Economic Development · Oil, Gas, and Environmental Issues · Petroleum Processing and Analysis · Finance
What has state weakness got to do with it? Oil theft and implications on human and environmental security in Nigeria’s Niger Delta region
Nigerian piracy
Depoliticizing environmental degradation
Oil and its discontents
Rethinking the ‘patron–client’ politics of oil block allocation, development and remittances in Nigeria
Gunning for security governance in a resource-rich African state? Interrogating militarisation in a democratic Nigeria
Righteous Oil? Human Rights, the Oil Complex, and Corporate Social Responsibility
Sowing Peace, Reaping Violence
Imperial oil
Turbulent Oil
Poverty, Pipeline Vandalisation/Explosion and Human Security
Oil pipeline sabotage in Nigeria
Who wants to be a millionaire? Nigerian youths and the commodification of kidnapping
Janus Unbound
Resource Curse or Rentier Peace? The Ambiguous Effects of Oil Wealth and Oil Dependence on Violent Conflict
Winning the War, Losing the Peace
| Citations per year | 0.86 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2023 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |