リチウム外交と経済安全保障：世界のエネルギー転換におけるジンバブエの重要鉱物戦略
Lithium Diplomacy and Economic Security: Zimbabwe’s Critical Minerals Strategy in the Global Energy Transition (原題)
Fulton Upenyu Mangwanya, Prosper Mutswiri, Umali Saidi, Sibusisiwe Chibaya
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日本語
ジンバブエのリチウム戦略を、経済安全保障・ESGガバナンス・国家戦略が交差する「重要鉱物外交」として理論化した研究。2022年の未加工リチウム輸出禁止から2026年の鉱石・精鉱輸出停止まで、規制強化の軌跡を追い、外国資本への構造的依存下での「制約された資源主権」というハイブリッド戦略を描く。規制強化は交渉力と主権的言説を高めるが、エネルギー・物流・契約透明性・制度信頼・技術学習といった補完能力なしには構造転換は保証されず、飛び地型収奪の再生産に陥るリスクを指摘する。
English
This paper theorises Zimbabwe's lithium strategy as critical minerals diplomacy at the nexus of economic security, ESG governance, and statecraft. Tracing the policy sequence from the 2022 raw lithium export ban to the 2026 suspension of ore and concentrate exports, it frames the approach as 'constrained resource sovereignty' under structural dependence on foreign capital. Regulatory escalation boosts bargaining power but, absent energy reliability, logistics, contractual transparency, and institutional credibility, risks entrenching enclave extraction rather than durable transformation.
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日本のGX文脈において
日本は電池・自動車産業のリチウム調達をアフリカに依存し、著者にJA全農（Zen-Noh）所属者が含まれる点は日本企業の資源調達リスクを考える上で示唆的。資源国側の輸出規制強化は、日本企業のScope 3・調達サプライチェーン戦略や人権・ESGデューデリジェンス対応に直結する。
In the global GX context
Adds a Global South, producer-state perspective to the critical-minerals debate that EU/US disclosure regimes (CSRD, SEC climate, CBAM-adjacent supply-chain rules) increasingly touch via due diligence and Scope 3. It shows how resource nationalism and ESG conditionality interact in battery value chains, relevant to transition-finance and supply-chain transparency scholarship.
👥 読者別の含意
🔬研究者:Critical-minerals governance and resource-nationalism theory with a sequenced policy case from a producer state.
🏢実務担当者:Signals sourcing and supply-chain risk for battery/automotive firms exposed to African lithium export restrictions and ESG due diligence.
🏛政策担当者:Illustrates how producer-state export controls reshape critical-minerals security and bargaining dynamics for importing economies.
📄 Abstract（原文）
This paper theorises Zimbabwe’s emergent lithium strategy as a form of critical minerals diplomacy situated at the nexus of economic security, ESG governance, and strategic statecraft within the global energy transition. It argues that lithium is being reconstituted from a passive geological endowment into a geopolitical instrument through which the state seeks to renegotiate its position in asymmetrical battery value chains. This repositioning is operationalised through an evolving regulatory architecture comprising export bans, strategic mineral designation, mandatory beneficiation, and targeted fiscal instruments aimed at internalising value and disciplining capital. Moving beyond binary interpretations of resource nationalism and developmental statism, the paper conceptualises Zimbabwe’s approach as a hybrid strategy of constrained resource sovereignty, pursued under conditions of structural dependence on foreign capital, technological externalities, infrastructural deficits, and price volatility in global lithium markets. Empirically, the study traces a sequenced policy trajectory from the 2022 ban on unprocessed lithium exports to the 2026 suspension of both raw mineral and concentrate exports, demonstrating escalating regulatory assertiveness and recalibrated state–capital relations. The analysis situates Zimbabwe’s lithium diplomacy within broader economic security debates shaped by rising demand, declining prices, and the geographic concentration of refining capacity. It argues that while regulatory escalation enhances bargaining power and discursive sovereignty, it does not guarantee structural transformation. Effective lithium diplomacy requires complementary capabilities, including energy reliability, logistics integration, contractual transparency, institutional credibility, technological learning, and inclusive stakeholder governance aligned with ESG imperatives. The paper concludes that without systemic capacity deepening, Zimbabwe risks entrenching enclave extraction under a more interventionist regime, thereby reproducing patterns of externalised value capture rather than achieving durable economic security.
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