POWER, CONFLICT AND NATURAL RESOURCES: THE MOZAMBICAN CRISIS REVISITED

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作者
Macuane, Jose Jaime [1 ]
Buur, Lars [2 ]
Monjane, Celso Marcos [3 ]
机构
[1] Univ Eduardo Mondlane, Dept Polit Sci & Publ Adm, Maputo, Mozambique
[2] Roskilde Univ, Dept Social Sci & Business, Roskilde, Denmark
[3] Roskilde Univ, Doctoral Sch Social Sci & Business, Roskilde, Denmark
关键词
SUGAR-INDUSTRY; POLITICS; STATE; CURSE;
D O I
10.1093/afraf/adx029
中图分类号
K9 [地理];
学科分类号
0705 ;
摘要
This article explores how the present socio-economic crisis in Mozambique is linked to the prospects of natural resource windfalls for the country. Drawing on the political settlement approach, it explores how the distribution of power both within and outside the ruling elite is structured and consequently how the underlying political processes have been shaped by the expectations of natural resource windfalls. The article argues that the present socio-economic crisis in Mozambique is not due to national resource assets in themselves. Instead, the political and economic downturn in Mozambique should be understood as a manifestation of how the political settlement has been organized and rent mobilization controlled by the ruling elite. To understand how the prospect of rents from natural resource sectors have influenced the political settlement, we have argued that one has to look at the dynamics of power both within and outside the ruling elite and the incentives they create for elites to use the control of power and access to economic benefits to achieve narrow and short-term gains rather than inclusive and longer-term goals.
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页码:415 / 438
页数:24
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