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...

Intro -- STABILIZING AND REBUILDINGIRAQ -- STABILIZING AND REBUILDING IRAQ -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- IRAQ: OIL AND GAS LEGISLATION,REVENUE SHARING, AND U.S. POLICY∗ -- ABSTRACT -- BACKGROUND -- DRAFT HYDROCARBON LEGISLATION -- Draft Hydrocarbon Framework Law -- Regional Authority and Oil Field...

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Fiscal Challenges in Oil-Producing Countries: An Overview -- Part I. Determining Fiscal Policy in Oil-Producing Countries -- 2 An Alternative Interpretation of the "Resource Curse": Theory and Policy Implications -- 3 Operational Aspects of...

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The History of Oil and International Affairs -- 2 The Illiberal Political Economy of Oil -- 3 Oil, American Diplomacy, and Weak Institutions -- 4 Oil and International Security -- 5 Oil and US Grand Strategy -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index.

Contents -- Foreword -- Cast of characters -- Captive narratives: a brief and unexceptional introduction to the history of firms and states -- Part 1. The nearest faraway place -- Arabian frontiers -- American camp -- The wizards of Dhahran -- Part 2. Desire's empty quarter -- Ayyam al-Kadalak...