POWER, CONFLICT AND NATURAL RESOURCES: THE MOZAMBICAN CRISIS REVISITED
POWER, CONFLICT AND NATURAL RESOURCES: THE MOZAMBICAN CRISIS REVISITED
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DOI：
10.1093/afraf/adx029
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发表时间：
2018-07-01
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影响因子：
2.8
通讯作者：
Monjane, Celso Marcos
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作者：
Macuane, Jose Jaime;Buur, Lars;Monjane, Celso Marcos
本文探讨了莫桑比克目前的社会经济危机如何与该国自然资源横财的前景联系在一起。借鉴政治解决方法，它探讨了统治精英内部和外部的权力分配是如何结构的，因此，对自然资源意外之财的期望如何塑造了潜在的政治过程。文章认为，莫桑比克目前的社会经济危机本身并不是由于国家资源资产。相反，莫桑比克的政治和经济衰退应该被理解为是统治精英如何组织政治解决和租金动员的表现。为了理解自然资源部门的租金前景如何影响了政治解决方案，我们认为，人们必须看看统治精英内部和外部的权力动态，以及他们为精英利用权力控制和获得经济利益来实现狭隘和短期利益而不是包容性和长期目标所创造的激励。
This article explores how the present socio-economic crisis in Mozambique is linked to the prospects of natural resource windfalls for the country. Drawing on the political settlement approach, it explores how the distribution of power both within and outside the ruling elite is structured and consequently how the underlying political processes have been shaped by the expectations of natural resource windfalls. The article argues that the present socio-economic crisis in Mozambique is not due to national resource assets in themselves. Instead, the political and economic downturn in Mozambique should be understood as a manifestation of how the political settlement has been organized and rent mobilization controlled by the ruling elite. To understand how the prospect of rents from natural resource sectors have influenced the political settlement, we have argued that one has to look at the dynamics of power both within and outside the ruling elite and the incentives they create for elites to use the control of power and access to economic benefits to achieve narrow and short-term gains rather than inclusive and longer-term goals.