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What are the key characteristics of the global aluminium market? How has the market evolved in recent decades? What is the role of Russian aluminium producers on the global market? What other actors and forces shape this market?—Those key questions are explored in this chapter, which enquires into how Russian aluminium producers have become key players on the market and how the emergence of China as the main producer of this commodity has changed the global aluminium game.
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Godzimirski, J.M. (2018). Basics of the Global Aluminium Market. In: The Political Economy of Russian Aluminium. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57234-5_2
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