ABSTRACT
This chapter critically explores the frontiers of theories on rentier politics, extractive economies and conflict in the global South. In doing so, the chapter engages existing discourses, and advances alternative perspectives. A key concern of the chapter is to outline the linkages between ‘rentier politics’, ‘extractive economies’ and ‘resource conflict’ – which are relatively under-theorized in terms of their causal relationships. Similarly, the chapter advances conceptual frameworks of analyses, based on multifactorial, multicontext and integrated models, as a useful schema for ‘best practice’ in research, and for engaging the debate on rentier politics and conflicts in the global South. In a way, the chapter shadows the various contributions of this volume.
