The Resource Curse In The Persian Gulf

Author : Mehran Kamrava
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000727098

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The “Resource Curse” in the Persian Gulf by Mehran Kamrava Pdf

The "Resource Curse" in the Persian Gulf systematically address the little studied notion of a "resource curse" in relation to the Persian Gulf by examining the historical causes and genesis of the phenomenon and its consequences in a variety of areas, including human development, infrastructural growth, clientelism, state-building and institutional evolution, and societal and gender relations. The book explores how across the Arabian Peninsula, oil wealth began accruing to the state at a particular juncture in the state-building process, when traditional, largely informal patterns of shaikhly rule were relatively well established, but the formal institutional apparatuses of the state were not yet fully formed. The chapters show that oil wealth had a direct impact on subsequent developments in these two complementary areas. Contributors discuss how on one hand, the distribution of petrodollars enabled political elites to solidify existing patterns of rule through deepening clientelist practices and by establishing new, dependent clients; and how on the other, rent revenues gave state leaders the opportunity to establish and shape institutions in ways that solidified their political control. The "Resource Curse" in the Persian Gulf will be of great interest to scholars of Middle Eastern studies, focusing on a variety of subject areas, including human development, human resources, clientelism, infrastructural growth, institutional evolution, state-building, and societal and gender relations. This book was originally published as a special issue in the Journal of Arabian Studies.

Author : Hossein Askari,Scheherazade Sabina Rehman,Noora Arfaa
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781849806404

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Corruption and Its Manifestation in the Persian Gulf by Hossein Askari,Scheherazade Sabina Rehman,Noora Arfaa Pdf

There has been much attention in the popular media paid to corruption in the oil-exporting countries of the Persian Gulf. This book investigates various forms and measures of corruption, considers whether it is more acute in Gulf countries than elsewhere and outlines the special forms ittakes in oil and natural gas rich economies. The authors also examine the major factors that promote corrupt practices, the impact on economic growth and social development and the controversial issues around the role of Islam.

Author : Alawi D. Kayal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136186530

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Control Of Oil - Hardback by Alawi D. Kayal Pdf

First Published in 2002. Oil is of strategic significance. The bulk of the earth's known oil reserves, more than 70 percent, is concentrated in the Persian Gulf area. And although alternative energy sources have been vigorously pursued, the United States continues, since 1970, to import from the Persian Gulf 24 percent of needed oil for her own consumption. Since this study was completed thirty years ago there have been several major events related to the control of the flow of Gulf oil. This work narrates the history of the world's power struggle over the control of oil in the Persian Gulf from the time of the signing of the earliest oil concessions in 1901 until 1971.

Author : H. Askari
Publisher : Springer
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137353771

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Collaborative Colonialism by H. Askari Pdf

This book is an analysis of how oil has affected governance and human, political, and economic development in the countries of the Persian Gulf and shaped these countries' relations with the rest of the world.

Author : Jim Krane
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780231548922

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Energy Kingdoms by Jim Krane Pdf

After the discovery of oil in the 1930s, the Gulf monarchies—Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Bahrain—went from being among the world’s poorest and most isolated places to some of its most ostentatiously wealthy. To maintain support, the ruling sheikhs provide their subjects with boundless cheap energy, unwittingly leading to some of the highest consumption rates on earth. Today, as summertime temperatures set new records, the Gulf’s rulers find themselves caught in a dilemma: can they curb their profligacy without jeopardizing the survival of some of the world’s last absolute monarchies? In Energy Kingdoms, Jim Krane takes readers inside these monarchies to consider their conundrum. He traces the history of the Gulf states’ energy use and policies, looking in particular at how energy subsidies have distorted demand. Oil exports are the lifeblood of their political-economic systems—and the basis of their strategic importance—but domestic consumption has begun eating into exports while climate change threatens to render their desert region uninhabitable. At risk are the sheikhdoms’ way of life, their relations with their Western protectors, and their political stability in a chaotic region. Backed by rich fieldwork and deep knowledge of the region, Krane expertly lays out the hard choices that Gulf leaders face to keep their states viable.

Author : David E. Long
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000304312

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The Persian Gulf by David E. Long Pdf

Since the energy crisis of 1973, the political, economic, and strategic importance of the Persian Gulf to U.S. interests has become readily apparent. Yet little has been written on the area or on policy considerations toward it. This book, in its second, updated edition, fills a considerable part of the gap in the literature. The first chapter desc

Author : Alawi Darweesh Kayal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025945903

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The Control of Oil by Alawi Darweesh Kayal Pdf

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Rouhollah K. Ramazani
Publisher : Brill Archive
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Law
ISBN : 9028600698

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The Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz by Rouhollah K. Ramazani Pdf

Appendiks med optryk af regionale traktater og vedtagelser s. 140-175.

Author : Mehran Kamrava
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 615 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780429514081

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Routledge Handbook of Persian Gulf Politics by Mehran Kamrava Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Persian Gulf Politics provides a comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of Persian Gulf politics, history, economics, and society. The volume begins its examination of Ottoman rule in the Arabian Peninsula, exploring other dimensions of the region’s history up until and after independence in the 1960s and 1970s. Featuring scholars from a range of disciplines, the book demonstrates how the Persian Gulf’s current, complex politics is a product of interwoven dynamics rooted in historical developments and memories, profound social, cultural, and economic changes underway since the 1980s and the 1990s, and inter-state and international relations among both regional actors and between them and the rest of the world. The book comprises a total of 36 individual chapters divided into the following six sections: Historical Context Society and Culture Economic Development Domestic Politics Regional Security Dynamics The Persian Gulf and the World Examining the Persian Gulf’s increasing importance in regional politics, diplomacy, economics, and security issues, the volume is a valuable resource for scholars, students, and policy makers interested in political science, history, Gulf studies, and the Middle East.

Author : Ibrahim Elbadawi,Hoda Selim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107141728

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Understanding and Avoiding the Oil Curse in Resource-rich Arab by Ibrahim Elbadawi,Hoda Selim Pdf

A variety of perspectives from leading economists provides fresh insight into how Arab countries may best exploit their oil revenues.

Author : Philippe Le Billon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Energy policy
ISBN : 071468497X

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Geopolitics of Resource Wars by Philippe Le Billon Pdf

A wealth of natural resources such as oil or diamonds should, in theory, favour a country's economic and social development. And yet, from the oil fields of the Persian Gulf to the diamond mines of West Africa, millions of people in resource-rich countries have seen their lives devastated as a result of exploitative commercial relations, corrupt governance and war. Going beyond conventional arguments of resource competition over scarce resources, this book examines the 'resource curse' affecting many resource-dependent countries and the spaces of (mis)governance shaping the violent geopolitics of many raw materials. Highlighting the multiple forms of violence accompanying the history of resources exploitation and current business practices supporting predatory regimes, insurgent groups and terrorists, this book provides fresh and in-depth perspectives on so-called 'resource wars'. including the geopolitics of oil control in the Middle East, Central Asia and Columbia, spaces of governance and 'petro-violence' in Nigeria and 'blood diamonds' and other minerals associated with conflicts in Sierra Leone and the Congo. This book was previously published as a special issue of the journal Geopolitics. Philippe Le Billon, University of British Columbia Richard A. Auty, Lancaster University Michael Watts, University of California, Berkeley Thad Dunning, University

Author : Enver M. Koury
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Balance of power
ISBN : UCAL:B4511753

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Oil and Geopolitics in the Persian Gulf Area by Enver M. Koury Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Economic Stabilization
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Persian Gulf Region
ISBN : PSU:000014317200

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U.S. Economic and Energy Security Interests in the Persian Gulf by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Economic Stabilization Pdf

Author : Philippe Le Billon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135768058

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The Geopolitics of Resource Wars by Philippe Le Billon Pdf

This new book provides fresh and in-depth perspectives on so-called 'resource wars'. Highlighting the multiple forms of violence accompanying the history of resources exploitation, business practices supporting predatory regimes, insurgent groups and terrorists, this is an authoritative guide to the struggle for control of the world's resources. It includes key conceptual chapters and covers a wide range of case studies including: * the geopolitics of oil control in the Middle East, Central Asia and Columbia, * spaces of governance and 'petro-violence' in Nigeria * 'blood diamonds' and other minerals associated with conflicts in Sierra Leone and the Congo. This book was previously published as a special issue of the journal Geopolitics.

Author : Gary G. Sick,Lawrence G. Potter
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1997-10-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0312174497

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The Persian Gulf at the Millennium by Gary G. Sick,Lawrence G. Potter Pdf

Throughout the second half of the twentieth century, the Gulf has been the scene - and sometimes the source - of international political and economic turmoil. Blatant intervention on the part of the Western powers in the domestic affairs of the eight regional states was a familiar feature from World War II until the British withdrawal in 1971, when it assumed more subtle forms. In addition, the oil shocks of the 1970s, followed closely by the Iranian revolution and the hostage crisis, triggered economic dislocations across the globe, as well as political upheaval and the disruption of a long-established security structure. In The Gulf at the Millennium , the most prominent Gulf specialists from both the Western world and the Gulf are brought together to look at this extraordinarily active and influential part of the world. The scholars identify and examine the issues that have the potential to affect future developments in the region, including the rapid demographic changes which are taking place, the relationship of the oil market to political stability and progress, the resurgence of Islam as a political force, the often heavy expenditures on defence, and new geostrategic realities after the end of the Cold War. A dynamic, crucial volume, The Gulf at the Millennium provides an unprecedented view beyond the media hype into what is perhaps the most volatile and controversial region of the world today.