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Title: | The Bush Administration and African Oil: The Security Implications of U.S. Energy Policy |
Author: | Volman, Daniel |
Year: | 2003 |
Periodical: | Review of African Political Economy |
Volume: | 30 |
Issue: | 98 |
Period: | December |
Pages: | 573-584 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Africa West Africa Nigeria United States |
Subjects: | foreign policy exports petroleum international relations Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Economics and Trade |
External links: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/04 http://www.roape.org/pdf/9804.pdf |
Abstract: | As a result of the Bush administration's strategy of increasing oil imports, African oil is now seen in Washington as a 'vital national security interest' of the US. In its efforts to promote greater diversity in oil supplies, the Bush administration is focusing its attention on six African countries: Nigeria, Angola, Gabon, Congo-Brazzaville, Chad and Equatorial Guinea. In addition, there is no doubt that the Bush administration wants America to regain access to Sudan's oil. But many oil fields lie in contested territory and most oil-producing countries are experiencing serious internal unrest. What is the Pentagon doing now to ensure that African oil will continue to flow to the US? The US Defense Department will be engaged chiefly with efforts to strengthen the security forces of oil-producing countries through the sale of arms to African governments, the provision of military training for African troops, and conducting joint military exercises. Furthermore, the Bush administration is in the process of transforming the African Crisis Response Initiative (ACRI), created in 1997 by the Clinton administration, into a new, 'more robust' programme to be known as the African Contingency Operations Training Assistance (ACOTA) programme. Though it seems unlikely that Washington will use military force to make sure that African oil continues to flow to the US in the immediate future, in the long term this is a real possibility. Ref., sum. [ASC Leiden abstract] |