|
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues
|
Buy Now
Resource Curse and Post-Soviet Eurasia - Oil, Gas, and Modernization (Paperback)
Loot Price: R1,313
Discovery Miles 13 130
|
|
|
Resource Curse and Post-Soviet Eurasia - Oil, Gas, and Modernization (Paperback)
Expected to ship within 12 - 19 working days
|
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.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
You might also like..
|
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
(1)
