Douglas Yates, Ph.D.

Professor, Member of the Academic Committee Fields of expertise African politics Politics of Oil Anglo-American Law Franco-American Foreign Affairs French Politics Comparative Electoral Studies Democracy Building International Conflict

Education

• B.A. Law & Society, U.C. Santa Barbara

• M.A. Political Science, Boston University

• Ph.D. Political Science Boston University

Other Current Posts

• Associate professor, University of Cergy-Pontoise, France

• Adjunt Assistant Professor, American University of Paris

Selected publications

Books

• The Scramble for African Oil: Oppression, Corruption and War for Control of Africa's Natural Resources (London: Pluto Press, 2012)

• The French Oil Industry and the Corps des Mines in Africa (Trenton/Asmara: Africa World Press, 2009)

• Historical Dictionary of Gabon, 3rd ed., co-authored with David Gardinier (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow-Press, 2006)

• Oil Policy in the Gulf of Guinea: Security & Conflict, Economic Growth, Social Development co-edited with Rudolf Traub-Merz (Bonn: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, 2004)

• The Rentier State in Africa: Oil Rent Dependency and Neocolonialism in the Republic of Gabon (Trenton/Asmara: Africa World Press, 1996)

Articles, Chapters

• "The Scramble for African Oil", South African Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 13 No. 2, (Johannesburg: SAIIA, 2006), 11-32

• "Gabon", in Andreas Mehler, Henning Melber and Klass van Walrave, eds. Africa Yearbook: Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara, 2004 to present editions (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2004-2011)

• "Neo-'Petro-monialism' and the Rentier State in Gabon," in Matthias Basedau, Andreas Mehler, eds. Resource Politics in Sub-Saharan Africa (Hamburg: African Studies Institute/IAK, 2005)

• "France, Britain, and the United States," co-authored with Kaye Whiteman, in Adekeye Adebajo & Ismail Rashid, eds. West Africa's Security Challenges: Building Peace in a Troubled Region (Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2004), 349-379

Contact

douglas.yates@ags.edu