Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- List of Contributors -- Introduction Counter-Shock and Counter-Revolution -- Part I: Oil Prices in Context -- 1. Price Regimes, Price Series and Price Trends: Oil Shocks and Counter-Shocks in Historical Perspective -- 2....

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...

A number of countries have recently discovered and are developing oil and gas reserves. Policy makers in such countries are anxious to obtain the greatest benefits for their economies from the extraction of these exhaustible resources by designing appropriate policies to achieve desired goals....

Our recent article on "The Road to Gaza" examined the history of the three supreme-God churches and the growing role of their militias in armed conflicts and wars around the world. The present paper situates these militia wars in the broader vista of the capitalist mode of power. Focusing...