Resource Curse and Post-Soviet Eurasia: Oil, Gas, and Modernization is an in-depth analysis on the impact of oil and gas abundance on political, economic, and social developments of Russia and other post-Soviet states and nations (such as Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan). The chapters of the book...

Large quantities of oil were discovered in the Albertine Rift Valley in Western Uganda in 2006. The sound management of these oil resources and revenues is undoubtedly one of the key public policy challenges for Uganda as it is for other African countries with large oil and/or gas endowments....

Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction: in search of economic policies to stabilise democratic transitions / Giacomo Luciani -- Reflections on the arab uprisings / Samir Makdisi -- Rethinking the rentier curse / Adeel Malik -- A brief political economy of energy subsidies in the Middle East and...

The history and historiography of natural resource development in the Arctic : the state of the literature / Ken Coates -- Social impacts of non-renewable resource development on indigenous communities in Alaska, Greenland, and Russia / Peter Schweitzer, Florian Stammler, Cecilie Ebsen, Aytalina...