This special issue, guest-edited by Alex Benkenstein and Ross Harvey, is entitled, ‘African extractives sector governance: Considering the role of the EU’. Articles focus on a number of key issues in extractive governance on the African continent. These include a human security perspective on natural resource governance; a critical engagement with the role of foreign players in Africa’s extractive sector; and an assessment of corporate engagement with good governance practices that promote peaceful development. Along with several book reviews, there is also an extensive review essay by Ian Taylor that looks at three key texts on understanding the extractive sector in Africa.
For the full line-up of the issue, please see below:
African extractives sector governance: Considering the role of the EU
Guest editors: Alex Benkenstein and Ross Harvey
Ross Harvey
Original articles
A human security perspective on natural resource governance: What makes reforms effective?
Nina Engwicht and Jan Grabek
Brian Ganson
Towards extractive justice: Europe, Africa and the pressures of resource dependency
Hanri Mostert, Cheri Young and Julie Hassman
Michael Amoah Awuah
Communal land and the attitudes of the Bafokeng on benefits from mineral rights
Gary Flomenhoft
Review article
Understanding Africa’s extractive sector
Ian Taylor
Book reviews
From the Outside In: Domestic Actors and South Africa’s Foreign Policy, by Chris Landsberg & Lesley Masters (eds)
Reviewed by Siphokazi Magadla
International Investment Law and Policy in Africa: Exploring a Human Rights Based Approach to Investment Regulation and Dispute Settlement, by Fola Adeleke
Reviewed by Talkmore Chidede
Institutions and Democracy in Africa: How the Rules of the Game Shape Political Developments, by Nic Cheeseman
Reviewed by Joleen Steyn-Kotze
African Foreign Policies in International Institutions, by Jason Warner & Timothy Shaw
Reviewed by Sven Botha
Foreign Policy in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Security, Diplomacy and Trade, by Adekeye Adebajo & Kudratr Virk (eds)
Reviewed by Candice Moore
The Future of Mining in South Africa: Sunset or Sunrise, Salimah Valiani (ed)
Reviewed by Emma-Jane Fuller
Related policy briefs
- Enhancing EU resource governance interventions: A call for prioritising human security
- Challenges and opportunities for the EU in Africa’s extractives sector
- A win-win for Europe & Africa: Extractive justice & resource inter-dependency
- Business (not) for peace: A call for conflict-sensitive policy in fragile states
