Assessed 12 April 2010.
Website links:
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(The UN 2008 report) Available on http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/reports.shtml
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The border conflict between Nigeria and Cameroon over Bakassi Peninsula. Available on http://www1.american.edu/ted/ice/nigeria-cameroon.htm Assessed 8 June 2010.
Territorial water conflict between Nigeria and Equatorial Guinea available on http://allafrica.com/stories/201005240290.html Assessed 8 June 2010
http://www.docstoc.com/docs/6259074/Gulf_of_Guinea/
http://journal.oraltradition.org/files/articles/12ii/2_hale.pdf
Conflict between Gabon and Equatorial Guinea available on http://www.afrol.com/articles/18259 Assessed 8 June 2010.
Timothy Geithner meeting Michel Barnier on global banking governance. Available on http://www.businesssweek.com/news/2010-05-17/geithner-meeting-barnier-on--basel-iii-presses-banks-updates-.html Assessed 18 May 2010. AOPIG US Energy Security lobby on Africa’s oil. http://www.africaaction.org/africom.html
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A succinct definition and the presentation of the debate of globalization by (David held and Anthony McGrew 1999) available on http://www.polity.co.uk/global/globalization-oxford.asp
Baldwin D 1985,Economic Statecraft. Princeton, NJ.: Princeton University Press.
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http://oilprice.com/Geo-Politics/International/Tension-Builds-in-the-Gulf-of-Guinea-as-Competition-for-Economic-Resources-Increases
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Xinhua 2005, News Analysis: Global Oil Majors Vie For Africa’s Gulf of Guinea Available on http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/227171/news_analysis_global_oil_majors_vie_for_africas_gulf_of_/index.html
Gerlach I 2008, Oil and the Gulf of Guinea. Available on http://www.tcij.org/training-material/oil-and-the-gulf-of-guinea
The border conflict between Nigeria and Cameroon over Bakassi Peninsula. Available on http://www1.american.edu/ted/ice/nigeria-cameroon.htm
Territorial water conflict between Nigeria and Equatorial Guinea available on http://allafrica.com/stories/201005240290.html
Conflict between Gabon and Equatorial Guinea available on http://www.afrol.com/articles/18259
Political shake up in Congo Brazzaville with the involvement of TotaFinaElf available on http://projects.publicintegrity.org/blow/report.aspx?aid=155 Assessed 16 May 2010
Instability in the Niger Delta of Nigeria available on
http://www.tcij.org/training-material/oil-and-the-gulf-of-guinea Assessed 16 May 2010
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Bush+&+Blair+scramble+for+oil
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/may/13/us-forces-train-african-armies/?
http://www.stratfor.com
ISIKE,Uzodike & Gilbert 2008 in Gerlach 2008, Oil and the Gulf of Guinea available on http://www.tcij.org/training-material/oil-and-the-gulf-of-guinea
Anup Shah 2010, Foreign Aid for Development Assistance available on http://www.globalissues.org/article/35/foreign-aid-development-assistance
Timothy Geither meeting Barnier to discuss on global issues, what this actually means is the implication of the shift in focus from states to markets and the increasing role politicians are playing in the establishment of global governance. http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-05-17/geithner-meeting-barnier-on-basel-iii-presses-banks-update1-.html
7.Appendix:
7.a Tables:
Table 1.1 select sales of multinational corporations 2004 (in US$)
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Wal-Mart Stores $288 billion
Royal Dutch Shell (UK/Netherlands) 269 billion
General Motors (US) 194 billion
Daimler Chrysler(Germany/US) 177 billion
Toyota(Japan) 173 billion
General Electric (US) 153 billion
Total (France) 153 billion
IBM 96 billion
Siemens(Germany) 92 billion
Nestle(Switzerland) 70 billion
Sonny (Japan) 67 billion
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Source; ‘’The Fortune Global 500’’, Fortune in Nye J S Jr 2007,p. 8
These selection of large Multinational corporations is to depict two things; firstly that these multinational corporations have annual sales that are larger than the GDP of more than Half of the states in the world and all the states in sub Saharan Africa richer and secondly that though they are non state actors and lack some types of power such as military, their role and influence in making wars and bringing about political change within states cannot be undermind.
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