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Oiling Regional Insecurity ? The implications of the Niger Delta Crisis for Security and Stability in the Gulf of Guinea and West Africa

Since ‘Oil Policy in the Gulf of Guinea: Security and Conflict, Economic Growth and Social Development’ (Traub-Merz and Yates, 2004), the regional complexities and implications of the deepening crisis in Nigeria’s volatile Niger Delta region has drawn lesser attention in scholarship. This paper argues that the dangerous twist of events in Nigeria’s delta- notably the June 2008 surprise attack on Shell- operated Bonga offshore oil platform located deep into the Atlantic Ocean- has turned the Gulf of Guinea straddled between West and Central Africa into a putative security quandary. To grasp the…