Politics And Oil In Kazakhstan

Author : Wojciech Ostrowski
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-02-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135248239

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Politics and Oil in Kazakhstan by Wojciech Ostrowski Pdf

In Kazakhstan, the oil industry plays a crucial role in its economic and political life due to the country’s considerable oil revenues and accompanying conflicting interests. As an arena of political struggle, this industry provides a good test case for uncovering regime maintenance techniques. This book examines the ways in which the post-Soviet Kazakh regime has managed to sustain itself in power, and the regime maintenance techniques it has used in the process of establishing and upholding its position. It scrutinizes the tools that the Kazakh regime employed in order to bring the country’s oil industry under its control and, while doing so, shifts the emphasis from the prevalent zhuz-horde, tribe, and clan-based approaches to Kazakh politics towards corporatism and patron-client mechanisms of control. Based on extensive field work in Kazakhstan and in-depth interviews with high ranking representatives of companies working in Kazakhstan’s oil and gas industry, both local and foreign, the National Oil Company and its subsidiaries, government agencies, foreign diplomats, journalists and representatives of oppositional parties and NGOs, this book provides a comprehensive study of the issues of politics of oil and state-business relationships in Kazakhstan.

Author : Indra Overland,Heidi Kjaernet,Andrea Kendall-Taylor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135224721

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Caspian Energy Politics by Indra Overland,Heidi Kjaernet,Andrea Kendall-Taylor Pdf

Analyzes the nexus of petroleum, security and governance in three semi-authoritarian states in the Caspian region, linking the analysis of domestic and international issues. This book offers an analysis of the impact of oil on the development of this crucial region.

Author : Boris Najman,Richard Pomfret,Gaël Raballand
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007-09-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134079148

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The Economics and Politics of Oil in the Caspian Basin by Boris Najman,Richard Pomfret,Gaël Raballand Pdf

Oil in the Caspian Basin : facts and figures / Gael Raballand and Regis Gente -- The impact of oil revenues on economic performance : analytical issues / Michael Lewin -- Nominal and real exchange rates in Kazakhstan : any sign of the Dutch disease? / Balazs Egert and Carol Leonard -- Resource revenues and fiscal sustainability in Kazakhstan / Peter Lohmus and Anna Ter Martirosyan -- Fiscal decentralization in centralized states : Central Asian patterns / Natalie Leschenko and Manuela Troschke -- Redistribution of oil revenues in Kazakhstan / Boris Najman.[et al.] -- Whither oil money? Redistribution of oil revenues in Azerbaijan / Matthias Luecke and Natalia Trofimenko -- Improving the beneficial socio-economic impact of hydrocarbon extraction on local/regional development in Caspian economies / Richard Auty -- Tengiz crude : a view from below / Saulesh Yessenova -- Conclusions.

Author : Ben Ostrov
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1788690133

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Kazakhstan by Ben Ostrov Pdf

Policy and practice are examined in detail and the results of their analysis presented on challenges ranging from introducing national self-determination, inequality, national identity and constitutional law, the interrelationship of corruption and authoritarianism, and Kazakhstan's role in global oil politics and international relations.

Author : B. Gokay
Publisher : Springer
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2001-01-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780333977637

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The Politics of the Caspian Oil by B. Gokay Pdf

The Caspian-Caucasus region has received considerable attention over the past eight years. The old potential of this colossal territory is so significant that the analytical centres of the world's largest oil and refining companies consider it to be more long-term than the unstable Persian Gulf. The Politics of Caspian Oil is a collection of essays presenting the results of recent research, which should serve as a reference book for the politics of Caspian oil.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:847688575

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Kazakhstan by Anonim Pdf

Author : Răsul Quliyev,Rasul Gouliev
Publisher : Liberty House Press Incorporated
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Former Soviet republics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105021926246

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Oil and Politics by Răsul Quliyev,Rasul Gouliev Pdf

Author : Wojciech Ostrowski
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010-02-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135248246

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Politics and Oil in Kazakhstan by Wojciech Ostrowski Pdf

In Kazakhstan, the oil industry plays a crucial role in its economic and political life due to the country’s considerable oil revenues and accompanying conflicting interests. As an arena of political struggle, this industry provides a good test case for uncovering regime maintenance techniques. This book examines the ways in which the post-Soviet Kazakh regime has managed to sustain itself in power, and the regime maintenance techniques it has used in the process of establishing and upholding its position. It scrutinizes the tools that the Kazakh regime employed in order to bring the country’s oil industry under its control and, while doing so, shifts the emphasis from the prevalent zhuz-horde, tribe, and clan-based approaches to Kazakh politics towards corporatism and patron-client mechanisms of control. Based on extensive field work in Kazakhstan and in-depth interviews with high ranking representatives of companies working in Kazakhstan’s oil and gas industry, both local and foreign, the National Oil Company and its subsidiaries, government agencies, foreign diplomats, journalists and representatives of oppositional parties and NGOs, this book provides a comprehensive study of the issues of politics of oil and state-business relationships in Kazakhstan.

Author : Lutz Kleveman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Caspian Sea Region
ISBN : NWU:35556034824474

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The New Great Game by Lutz Kleveman Pdf

The Caspian Region, lying south of Russia, west of China and north of Afghanistan, contains the world's largest untapped oil and gas resources. As much as 200 billion barrels of crude oil and 40 per cent of the world's global gas reserves can be found in Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan. In the years between the death of the Soviet Union and September 11, 2001, oil companies and politicians have struggled to possess and develop these resources. Using a concept immortalised by Kipling in his novel Kim, Lutz Kleveman argues that there is now a new "Great Game" in the region, in which the US, Russia, China, India, Pakistan and Iran - most of which are nuclear powers - are competing. He contends that after 9/11, the formidable power of the US has started to drive towards "full spectrum dominance"; that is, global hegemony in the military, political and economic sphere. Kleveman has produced an insightful and exacting portrait of a new theatre of war, a region in which there are few rules and in which the rewards for victory are nothing less than power and prosperity in the new century.

Author : Richard Weitz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1466233664

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Kazakhstan and the New International Politics of Eurasia by Richard Weitz Pdf

During the past half-decade Kazakhstan has accomplished something which no other state formed from the ruins of the USSR has achieved: beginning as a largely rural country with a small but politically powerful urban elite, it has emerged with a large and growing middle-class that increasingly seeks to make its voice heard in national affairs. Oil has been the engine of this change, but Kazakhstan is now working hard to diversify the sources of its wealth. Under any circumstances, such progress as has occurred would not have been possible without prudent reforms and innovative legislation. Nor could it have happened without a foreign policy that assured the country's security without tying it to any one outside power. In 2008, the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program Joint Center undertook a review of Kazakhstan's progress and current status in three areas: social evolution, political reform, and international security. This has already resulted in two monographs issued by the Joint center as Silk Road Papers: John C. K. Daly's Kazakhstan's Emerging Middle Class and Anthony Clive Bowyer's Parliament and Political Parties in Kazakhstan. With this paper by Richard Weitz, we conclude the series. Dr. Weitz, a Senior Fellow and Director for Program Management at the Hudson Institute, offers a detailed overview of Kazakhstan evolving role in regional security and economic relations, as well as its relationship with major international organizations and powers. Indeed, Dr. Weitz shows how Kazakhstan's cautious and multi-vector foreign policy has contributed to strengthening the country and making it an increasingly independent power-house in Eurasia, with balanced and positive relations with all major and regional powers. We hope readers find this of interest.

Author : Touraj Atabaki,Elisabetta Bini,Kaveh Ehsani
Publisher : Springer
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319564456

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Working for Oil by Touraj Atabaki,Elisabetta Bini,Kaveh Ehsani Pdf

This volume examines the social history of oil workers and investigates how labor relations have shaped the global oil industry during the twentieth century and today. It brings together the work of scholars from a range of disciplines, approaching the social, political, economic and cultural dimensions of oil. The contributors analyze a number of key oil producing regions, including the Americas, the Middle East, Central Asia, the Caucasus, Europe and Africa.

Author : Jill Crystal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1995-01-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0521466350

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Oil and Politics in the Gulf by Jill Crystal Pdf

This book asks why in recent years the social and economic upheavals in Kuwait and Qatar have been accompanied by a remarkable political continuity.

Author : Anna Kuteleva
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000406320

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China’s Energy Security and Relations With Petrostates by Anna Kuteleva Pdf

This book examines the development of bilateral energy relations between China and the two oil-rich countries, Kazakhstan and Russia. Challenging conventional assumptions about energy politics and China’s global quest for oil, this book examines the interplay of politics and sociocultural contexts. It shows how energy resources become ideas and how these ideas are mobilized in the realm of international relations. China’s relations with Kazakhstan and Russia are simultaneously enabled and constrained by the discursive politics of oil. It is argued that to build collaborative and constructive energy relations with China, its partners in Kazakhstan, Russia, and elsewhere must consider not only the material realities of China’s energy industry and the institutional settings of China’s energy policy but also the multiple symbolic meanings that energy resources and, particularly, oil acquire in China. China’s Energy Security and Relations with Petrostates offers a nuanced understanding of China’s bilateral energy relations with Kazakhstan and Russia, raising essential questions about the social logic of international energy politics. It will appeal to students and scholars of international relations, energy security, Chinese and post-Soviet studies, along with researchers working in the fields of energy policy and environmental sustainability.

Author : Gennadiĭ Illarionovich Chufrin,Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Publisher : Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0199250200

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The Security of the Caspian Sea Region by Gennadiĭ Illarionovich Chufrin,Stockholm International Peace Research Institute Pdf

Published in association with the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.

Author : Slawomir Raszewski
Publisher : Springer
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319625577

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The International Political Economy of Oil and Gas by Slawomir Raszewski Pdf

This book addresses energy research from four distinct International Political Economy perspectives: energy security, governance, legal and developmental areas. Energy is too important to be neglected by political scientists. Yet, within the mainstream of the discipline energy research still remains a peripheral area of academic enquiry seeking to plug into the discipline’s theoretical debates. The purpose of this book is to assess how existing perspectives fit with our understanding of social science energy research by focusing on the oil and gas dimension.