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Brenda Shaffer is Senior Lecturer in the School of Political Science at the University of Haifa. She is the author of many books, including Energy Politics, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Taleh Ziyadov is Research Fellow at the Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy in Baku, Azerbaijan.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction
—Brenda Shaffer
PART I. ECONOMICS AND INFRASTRUCTURES OF ENERGY EXPORTERS
1. The Natural Resource Curse: A Survey
—Jeffrey Frankel
2. Sometimes the Grass Is Indeed Greener: The Successful Use of Energy Revenues
—Patrick Clawson
3. Is There a Policy Learning Curve? Trinidad and Tobago and the 2004- 8 Hydrocarbon Boom
—Richard M. Auty
4. The Illusion of Unlimited Supply: Iran and Energy Subsidies
—Ahmad Mojtahed
5. Challenges Facing Central Banks in Oil- Exporting Countries: The Case of Azerbaijan
—Elkin Nurmammadov
6. Power to the Producers: The Challenges of Electricity Provision in Major Energy-Exporting States
—Theresa Sabonis-Helf
PART II. ENERGY EXPORTS, SOCIETY, AND POLITICS
7. The Impact of Energy Resources on Nation- and State- Building: The Contrasting Cases of Azerbaijan and Georgia
—Murad Ismayilov
8. Education Reform in Energy- Exporting States: The Post- Soviet Experience in Comparative Perspective
—Regine A. Spector
9. Is Norway Really Norway?
—Ole Andreas Engen, Oluf Langhelle, and Reidar Bratvold
PART III. ENERGY EXPORTERS IN THE INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL SYSTEM
10. Energy Exporters and the International Energy Agency
—Richard Jones
11. Resource Nationalism and Oil Development: Profit or Peril?
—Amy M. Jaffe
12. Natural Resources, Domestic Instability, and International Conflicts
—Elnur Soltanov
13. Petroleum, Governance, and Fragility: The Micro-Politics of Petroleum in Postconflict States
—Naazneen H. Barma
Conclusion: Constant Perils, Policy Responses, and Lessons to Be Learned
—Taleh Ziyadov
Notes
Contributors
Index
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Brenda Shaffer is Senior Lecturer in the School of Political Science at the University of Haifa. She is the author of many books, including Energy Politics, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Taleh Ziyadov is Research Fellow at the Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy in Baku, Azerbaijan.
Zusammenfassung
Beyond the Resource Curse focuses on the paradoxical relationship between natural wealth and economic security and examines the particular pitfalls and consistent problems facing oil and gas exporting states and contributes to a better comprehension of the perils of oil and gas export.
