Population, Petroleum, and Politics
Author | : Charles F. Gallagher |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Mexico |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Charles F. Gallagher |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Mexico |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Ricardo Soares de Oliveira |
Publisher | : Hurst & Company |
Total Pages | : 379 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Guinea, Gulf of |
ISBN | : 9781850658580 |
This book investigates the paradox at the heart of present-day Gulf of Guinea politics. The governance crisis festering throughout every one of the region's states ought to discourage outsiders from capital-intensive, long-term commercial involvement and cast doubts over the political survival of ruling cliques. However, the presence of large petroleum deposits radically changes this equation: the negative dynamics of state failure and widespread violence affect the general population but spare the oil nexus. The material and political resources made available by oil allow states to survive regardless of bad policies, facilitate their governing elites' material success regardless of reckless management, earn international allies regardless of erratic domestic conduct, and make companies want to invest regardless of risk. The recent oil boom only strengthens this paradoxical viability. Making possible what is arguably the largest inflow of resources into Africa in history, it is of a different order from the short-term viability afforded by the exploitation of other natural resources. Nonetheless, the partnership between insiders and outsiders that permits the extraction of oil is not conducive to positive long-term outcomes in institution-building or broad-based economic growth. Highly dependent on uninterrupted money flows and beset by various destabilising trends, the political economy of oil in the Gulf of Guinea is poised in a state of 'permanent crisis'. This study, based on extensive fieldwork, interviews and engagement with primary and secondary sources, is the first on the subject to take on the regional, as opposed to the country-specific, dimension. It has four key aims. The first is to bring out the extent to which oil has forged the interaction of the region with the world economy and how the ongoing expansion of the oil sector will deepen this pivotal role. Secondly, how this international relevance of petroleum has shaped postcolonial domestic politics and institutions. Thirdly, it examines the interests of different sets of empowered actors in the partnership between importers, producers and oil companies, their interplay, and the manner and contexts in which their goals diverge or converge. Finally, it analyses the sources of long-term sustainability of the political economy of oil in the Gulf of Guinea amidst seemingly unmanageable chaos.
Author | : Robert Engler |
Publisher | : New York : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 588 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : |
Author | : James A. Bill |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Middle East |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Francisco R. Parra |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Petroleum industry and trade |
ISBN | : 9780755620593 |
"Many international conflicts in the world today revolve around the control of oil - despite the protestations of politicians to the contrary. The unfettered availability of oil at an affordable price is basic to the stability, security and prosperity of all states - not just those in the West. Thus fundamental to any understanding of the politics of the contemporary world is an understanding of the politics and most recent history of petroleum. Francisco Parra sets out the political and economic events which, since the 1950s, have shaped the international petroleum industry and world affairs: the relationships central to continuing conflicts since 1950 between Middle Eastern governments, the big seven major oil companies and the governments of their home countries - the US and Britain; the struggle over oil prices; domination by the international companies; levels of competition and above all the control over oil resources. Parra concludes that more and far greater conflicts loom in the future, all driven by the dependence of the industrial world on the Middle East for oil, OPEC's volatile control over price, uncertainties in Russia and Central Asia and the growing hostility between "Islam and the West"."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Author | : Rómulo Betancourt |
Publisher | : Boston : Houghton Mifflin |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Charles F. Doran |
Publisher | : New York : Free Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
Examines the myths of unfair oil prices, Israel and oil, obscene corporate profits, divestiture, international energy agency, and OPEC cohesion and provides specific recommendations for a sound energy policy.
Author | : Michael L. Ross |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2013-09-08 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0691159637 |
Countries that are rich in petroleum have less democracy, less economic stability, and more frequent civil wars than countries without oil. What explains this oil curse? And can it be fixed? In this groundbreaking analysis, Michael L. Ross looks at how developing nations are shaped by their mineral wealth--and how they can turn oil from a curse into a blessing. Ross traces the oil curse to the upheaval of the 1970s, when oil prices soared and governments across the developing world seized control of their countries' oil industries. Before nationalization, the oil-rich countries looked much like the rest of the world; today, they are 50 percent more likely to be ruled by autocrats--and twice as likely to descend into civil war--than countries without oil. The Oil Curse shows why oil wealth typically creates less economic growth than it should; why it produces jobs for men but not women; and why it creates more problems in poor states than in rich ones. It also warns that the global thirst for petroleum is causing companies to drill in increasingly poor nations, which could further spread the oil curse. This landmark book explains why good geology often leads to bad governance, and how this can be changed.
Author | : Charles F. Gallagher |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Mexico |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Prince Emeka Ndimele |
Publisher | : Academic Press |
Total Pages | : 487 |
Release | : 2017-11-17 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0128096284 |
The Political Ecology of Oil and Gas Activities in the Nigerian Aquatic Ecosystem reviews the current status of the ecosystems and economic implications of oil and gas development in Nigeria, a key oil-producing state. The ecological and economic impacts of oil and gas development, particularly in developing nations, are crucial topics for ecologists, natural resource professionals and pollution researchers to understand. This book takes an integrative approach to these problems through the lens of one of the key oil-producing nations, linking natural and human systems through the valuation of ecosystem services. Provides background information on Nigerian aquatic environments, its local history of oil exploration and a review of the physical chemistry of crude oil Reviews global and national perspectives on the oil and gas industry from a physical ecological, to a socio-political and economic ecological perspective Demonstrates real-life situations of the interactions and impacts of Nigerian petroleum production on the environment and local populations through case studies