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...

Oil Spaces traces petroleum’s impact through a range of territories from across the world, showing how industrially drilled petroleum and its refined products have played a major role in transforming the built environment in ways that are often not visible or recognized. Over the past century...

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...