The New Kings of Crude: China, India, and the Global Struggle for Oil in Sudan and South Sudan

In the past decade, the need for oil in Asia's new industrial powers, China and India, has grown dramatically. The New Kings of Crude takes the reader from the dusty streets of an African capital to Asia's glistening corporate towers to provide a first look at how the world's rising economies established new international oil empires in Sudan, amid one of Africa's longest-running and deadliest civil wars.

For over a decade, Sudan fuelled the international rise of Chinese and Indian national oil companies. But the political turmoil surrounding the historic division of Africa's largest country, with the birth of South Sudan, challenged Asia's oil giants to chart a new course. Luke Patey weaves together the stories of hardened oilmen, powerful politicians, rebel fighters, and human rights activists to show how the lure of oil brought China and India into Sudan—only later to ensnare both in the messy politics of a divided country. His book also introduces the reader to the Chinese and Indian oilmen and politicians who were willing to become entangled in an African civil war in the pursuit of the world's most coveted resource. It offers a portrait of the challenges China and India are increasingly facing as emerging powers in the world.

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The New Kings of Crude: China, India, and the Global Struggle for Oil in Sudan and South Sudan

In the past decade, the need for oil in Asia's new industrial powers, China and India, has grown dramatically. The New Kings of Crude takes the reader from the dusty streets of an African capital to Asia's glistening corporate towers to provide a first look at how the world's rising economies established new international oil empires in Sudan, amid one of Africa's longest-running and deadliest civil wars.

For over a decade, Sudan fuelled the international rise of Chinese and Indian national oil companies. But the political turmoil surrounding the historic division of Africa's largest country, with the birth of South Sudan, challenged Asia's oil giants to chart a new course. Luke Patey weaves together the stories of hardened oilmen, powerful politicians, rebel fighters, and human rights activists to show how the lure of oil brought China and India into Sudan—only later to ensnare both in the messy politics of a divided country. His book also introduces the reader to the Chinese and Indian oilmen and politicians who were willing to become entangled in an African civil war in the pursuit of the world's most coveted resource. It offers a portrait of the challenges China and India are increasingly facing as emerging powers in the world.

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The New Kings of Crude: China, India, and the Global Struggle for Oil in Sudan and South Sudan

The New Kings of Crude: China, India, and the Global Struggle for Oil in Sudan and South Sudan

by Luke A Patey
The New Kings of Crude: China, India, and the Global Struggle for Oil in Sudan and South Sudan

The New Kings of Crude: China, India, and the Global Struggle for Oil in Sudan and South Sudan

by Luke A Patey

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In the past decade, the need for oil in Asia's new industrial powers, China and India, has grown dramatically. The New Kings of Crude takes the reader from the dusty streets of an African capital to Asia's glistening corporate towers to provide a first look at how the world's rising economies established new international oil empires in Sudan, amid one of Africa's longest-running and deadliest civil wars.

For over a decade, Sudan fuelled the international rise of Chinese and Indian national oil companies. But the political turmoil surrounding the historic division of Africa's largest country, with the birth of South Sudan, challenged Asia's oil giants to chart a new course. Luke Patey weaves together the stories of hardened oilmen, powerful politicians, rebel fighters, and human rights activists to show how the lure of oil brought China and India into Sudan—only later to ensnare both in the messy politics of a divided country. His book also introduces the reader to the Chinese and Indian oilmen and politicians who were willing to become entangled in an African civil war in the pursuit of the world's most coveted resource. It offers a portrait of the challenges China and India are increasingly facing as emerging powers in the world.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781849042949
Publisher: Hurst & Co.
Publication date: 10/15/2014
Pages: 376
Sales rank: 196,919
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Luke Patey is a research fellow at the Danish Institute for International Studies. His work focuses on the political economy of oil in Sudan and South Sudan and the overseas investments of Chinese and Indian national oil companies. He has written for The Guardian and The Hindu, and is co-editor of Sudan Looks East (James Currey, 2011). He has appeared as a guest on the BBC World Service, Radio France, Voice of America, and the Danish Broadcasting Corporation. He has also been a visiting scholar at Peking University (Beijing), the Social Science Research Council (New York), and the Centre d'études et de recherches internationales (Paris).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction: Three Minutes in February

PART I: SUDAN
1. American Dreaming
2. The Long Goodbye
3. Boardrooms and Battlefields

PART II: CHINA
4. Oil for the Party
5. A Chinese Miracle

PART III: INDIA
6. Keeping the Lights On
7. An Oil Titan Reincarnated

PART IV: DARFUR
8. The Rise and Fall of an Activist Campaign
9. War in Peace

PART V: TWO SUDANS
10. New Country, Old Problems
11. The Reform Years
Conclusion: The Sudanese Factor

Notes
Index

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