This paper provides a brief overview of the political economy of Caspian oil. It begins by situating the Caspian region's oil sectors in the larger global market, before proceeding to examine the ways in which the Azerbaijani, Turkmen, and Kazakh oil sectors have been organised and governed...

We analyze the dynamic effect of prices and price volatility on current oil production, both on the level of country groups and the major individual producer countries. A comprehensive dataset at monthly frequency allows us to include a rich lag structure while controlling for key global and...

Intro -- Oil, Globalization, and the War for the Arctic Refuge -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part 1. Oil and the Corporate State -- 1. Globalism, Oil, and the Power Elites -- 2. Background to Battle: The Thirty Years' War -- 3. The Oil Companies: A Legacy of Global Power -- 4. The...

Key Features:An examination of China's political and conceptual metamorphosis of self-reliance to internationalizationA unique and refreshing monograph examining China's oil developmental historyReferences drawn from both English and Chinese primary sources.