Table of Contents

Chapter 1: The New Scramble, Geography and Development. Chapter 2: Old Economic Power Resource Interests and Strategies in Africa.

Chapter 3: New Economic Power Resource Interests and Strategies in Africa.

Chapter 4: Driving the Global Economy: West African and Sahelian Oil.

Chapter 5: Minerals: Powering, Connecting and Wiring the Globe: From Uranium to Coltan.

Chapter 6: Furnishing and Feeding the World? Timber, Biofuels, Food and Fisheries.

Chapter 7: Markets and The Embedding of Asian Investment: Evidence from Zambia.

Chapter 8: Can African Unscramble the Continent?

About the Author

Padraig Carmody is Senior Lecturer in Geography at Trinity College Dublin.

Reviews

Winner of the Geographical Society of Ireland's Book of the YearAward "Essential to observers of Africa's politics and internationalrelations." Global Journal "Carmody s skill is not merely in his assiduous efforts topool a huge array of information, but also in not getting carriedaway with political rhetoric. Everything here is backed up withstatistical data and from numerous, wide-ranging sources. Though fact-heavy, The New Scramble for Africa is aremarkably accessible work on economic development." The Ecologist "The single most useful book I have ever read about thecontinent." Metro Eirann "Carmody's tone is not moralistic. Just a procession of factsand conclusions. A cataract of catastrophe. What Pakenham does forliterature, Carmody achieves in scholarship." Irish Examiner "A must-read for anyone responsible for formulating strategy fororganisations aiming to impact Africa, in order to understand theimpact of the current forces at work, which need to be takeninto consideration to formulate a well-grounded response tothe challenges Africa is facing today." Development in Practice "A seminal study of the nature of resource and marketcompetition in Africa." African Business "An excellent reference source for those interested inunderstanding the new scramble." Africa Studies Quarterly "A well-informed, nuanced and empirically rich contributionbased on an impressive body of material. At the same time, the bookis well structured and accessible even for non-specialists on theregion." Regional Studies "A rare and nuanced examination. It skillfully handles thecomplex history and theories of Africa s underdevelopment andprovides much guidance to scholars and advocates wishing to have adeeper, critical understanding of the challenges African stateswill confront in this century." Global Environmental Politics "Carmody argues forcefully that the current trends evoke thelate-nineteenth-century scramble for Africa, during which a handfulof European powers carved up the continent in pursuit of itsnatural resources, and his book is full of arresting anecdotes andprovocative claims about the nature of the competition." Foreign Affairs "Useful resource, particularly for undergraduate studentswishing to gain an accessible and empirically rich introduction tokey themes surrounding Africa s external relations with botheastern and western 'partners'." International Affairs "A very illuminating insight into imperialism's second scramblefor Africa." Permanent Revolution "A timely book that deserves to be read by a broad audience ofAfricanists. It successfully captures the major challengesresulting from the deepening engagement of foreign actors onAfrican grounds." Progress in Human Geography "Carmody provides an intelligent andreadable insight into a complex and rapidly changing subject. Byworking through specific resources, and by including a widespectrum of western and non-western actors, he is able to set out anuanced and detailed analysis of these dynamic relations. This isan essential text for anyone seeking to get to grips with the 'newscramble for Africa'." Emma Mawdsley, Newnham College, Cambridge "Padraig Carmody's insightful volume challenges theorthodoxies of 'new' economic geography to point to the salience ofpower and politics in the new scramble for Africa. The book is avery readable welcome addition to the literature from one ofgeography's foremost scholars of African development." Howard Stein, University of Michigan "Carmody's book on accumulation and power in Africa is amongstthe most nuanced and most persuasive I've read. Given recentAsian-African dynamics, this is a crucial time for a new overviewof the Scramble." Patrick Bond, University of KwaZulu-Natal School of DevelopmentStudies