Federalism and Oil & Gas Conflict Dynamics in Canada and Nigeria

This book examines oil and gas conflict dynamics (or conflict processes/mechanisms) with emphasis on conflict over resource ownership, control, management, or regulation, as well as sharing of revenues within the context of federalism in Canada, an established federation with a consolidated democratic structure and, generally, a decentralized federal institutional design over oil and gas, and Nigeria, an emerging federation with a centralized federal institutional design. The focused comparison of intergovernmental fiscal transfers in both countries in their historical and temporal contexts allows a deeper understanding of the mechanisms at play in the relationships between federalism and resource conflict in Canada and Nigeria, especially the continuity and change in the interactions between federal institutions, socio-economic factors, and political processes.