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Juan Cole 02/22/2007

The US, Petroleum, and Nigerian Democracy

For those interested in the issue of US foreign policy and petroleum, the paper “Convergent Interests: U.S. energy security and the “securing” of Nigerian democracy,” by Paul Lubeck, Michael Watts and Ronnie Lipschutz at The Center for International Policy de rigeur.

Scroll down at the executive summary for the pdf link to the whole report.

About the Author

Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page

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