Foreign Investment and Political Regimes - The Oil Sector in Azerbaijan, Russia, and Norway

Demonstrates that the political institutions of authoritarian regimes and consolidated democracies are better equipped to create attractive policies for investors.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Political risks in oil investments: a history of antagonistic interdependence; 3. With or without democracy?: the political economy of FDI; 4. Curse or blessing?: effects of FDI on development; 5. Azerbaijan: one-stop shopping; 6. Russia: two-steps forward, one-step back; 7. Norway: icon of stability; 8. Beyond three cases and oil; 9. Conclusion.

About the author

Oksan Bayulgen is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Connecticut. Bayulgen has published numerous articles on foreign investment, oil politics, democratization, and microfinance in such journals as Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Business and Politics, and International Studies Review. She has received research grants from the Ford Foundation, University of Texas at Austin, and University of Connecticut to conduct extensive field-work in Azerbaijan, Russia, Norway, Kazakhstan and Turkey.

Product details

• Authors: Oksan Bayulgen, Oksan (University of Connecticut) Bayulgen, Bayulgen Oksan
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.08.2014
• EAN: 9781107436923
• ISBN: 978-1-107-43692-3
• No. of pages: 290
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Economics, finance, business & management, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Petroleum, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Energy, economic growth, International Economics, Political Economy, Comparative Politics, Petroleum, oil and gas industries, Energy industries and utilities