state system as such. Countries benefitting from oil and gas rents have been more resilient, because of their potential to …, in general, of the Arab states system. In this context, national oil companies can increasingly be conceptualized not …

data on the oil and gas industry, we show that contracts between the oil majors and petro-rich economies with weak … interventions to back up the enforcement of the contracts of their oil firms. Fading of (military) enforcement, together with the …

This paper studies the oil-violence link in the Niger Delta, systematically taking into consideration domestic and … and political-institutional and socioeconomic weakness that existed even before the beginning of the “oil era.” Oil has … oil theft helps to explain the perpetuation of the violent conflicts at a low level of intensity. …

The current wave of volatile international oil process coupled with the low hydro-energy generation continues to exert … and examines policy options that can be undertaken to circumvent the negative effects. The impact of higher oil prices … government has title control on the international prices of oil, further private and public investments in the energy sector are …

This paper provides an overview of the political economy of oil in the CIS. It briefly situates the region's oil sector … potential in the global context, before analysing the structural features of the oil sectors by country. It examines the ways in … which CIS oil industries have been organised and governed since 1991, as well as questions of transport infrastructure and …

This paper explores an oil discovery natural experiment to assess the role of natural resources in determining … corruption. We argue that an anticipated oil boom may increase corruption by boosting the value attributed by an elite to being … in power when the actual oil exploration begins. We test this proposition by analyzing the impact of the oil discovery …

The paper recounts the history of Saudi Arabia's first national oil company, Petromin, which was originally supposed to … organisation of the Saudi oil sector today is very different from - and more efficient than - that of most other oil exporters in … the developing world. The paper concludes with a tentative taxonomy of national oil companies, based on the circumstances …