Resource curse and post-Soviet Eurasia : oil, gas, and modernization
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Resource curse and post-Soviet Eurasia : oil, gas, and modernization
Lexington Books, 2012
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Includes index
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By the end of the 2000s, the term "resource curse" had become so widespread that it had turned into a kind of magic keyword, not only in the scholarly language of the social sciences, but also in the discourse of politicians, commentators and analysts all over the world-like the term "modernization" in the early 1960s or "transition" in the early 1990s. In fact, the aggravation of many problems in the global economy and politics, against the background of the rally of oil prices in 2004-2008, became the environment for academic and public debates about the role of natural resources in general, and oil and gas in particular, in the development of various societies. The results of numerous studies do not give a clear answer to questions about the nature and mechanisms of the influence of the oil and gas abundance on the economic, political and social processes in various states and nations. However, the majority of scholars and observers agree that this influence in the most of countries is primarily negative.
Resource Curse and Post-Soviet Eurasia: Oil, Gas, and Modernization is an in-depth analysis of 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 systematically examine various effects of "resource curse" in different arenas such as state building, regime changes, rule of law, property rights, policy-making, interest representation, and international relations in theoretical, historical, and comparative perspectives. The authors analyze the role of oil and gas dependency in the evolution and subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union, authoritarian drift of post-Soviet countries, building of predatory state and pendulum-like swings of Russia from "state capture" of 1990s to "business capture" of 2000s, uneasy relationships between the state and special interest groups, and numerous problems of "geo-economics" of pipelines in post-Soviet Eurasia.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction: Resource Curse and Post-Soviet Eurasia
Chapter 2. Resource Curse: Rethinking the Soviet Experience
Chapter 3. The Impact of the "Oil Shock" on the Post-Soviet Regime Changes
Chapter 4. Oil Boom: Is It Devastating to the Property Rights and the Rule of Law?
Chapter 5. The Logic of Crony Capitalism: Big Oil, Big Politics, and Big Business in Russia
Chapter 6. Oil Boom and Government Finance in Russia: Stabilization Fund and Its Fate
Chapter 7. Oil, Gas, Transit, and Boundaries: Problems of "Transport Curse"
Chapter 8. Oil, Gas, and Modernization of Global South: African Lessons for Post-Soviet States
Chapter 9. Conclusion: Oil, Gas, Russia and 2008-2009 Economic Crisis
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