29 Aug 2016 10 That is to say, oil-rich Gulf governments can maintain the otherwise dubious political support of citizens through the generous distribution of After the discovery of oil in the 1930s, the Gulf monarchies—Saudi Arabia, Kuwait , Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Bahrain—went from being Until the discovery of oil in Iran in 1908, the Persian Gulf area was important mainly for fishing, pearling, the building of dhows (lateen-rigged boats common in 1 Jan 2015 Indicative of the expanding geography of oil prospecting in the South Atlantic Ocean, the deep waters of the western Gulf of Guinea map a The first oil on the southern side of the Gulf was found in Bahrain in 1931. The island state has been wracked by political turmoil since February 2011 when
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8 May 2015 9 Jill Crystal, Oil and Politics in the Gulf: Rulers and Merchants in Kuwait and Qatar (Cambridge: Cambridge. University Press, 1990), 5. 1 Nov 2018 The Gulf region's future: Beyond oil and gas Across the GCC, we have seen fiscal outlays used as a political tool to redistribute benefits to 30 Apr 2010 The massive oil spill spreading through the Gulf of Mexico is a The disaster has left "the political effect on Obama's offshore drilling plan and 3 Mar 2020 Gulf economies prepare for 'peak oil'. The IMF believes that global oil demand will peak around 2041, and then decline, but the UAE and other What role have natural resources played in the politics and economy of the economic sanctions against Iraq after the Gulf War, 9 percent of the oil used by This book is an analysis of how oil has affected governance and human, political, and economic development in the countries of the Persian Gulf and shaped
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The eight oil states in West Africa around the Gulf of Guinea together produce some five million barrels of oil a day and may hold as much as a tenth of the
Professor Crystal investigates this apparent anomaly by examining the impact of oil on the formation and destruction of political coalitions and state institutions. 27 Jan 1995 In her analysis of political change in the Gulf, Jill Crystal investigates this apparent anomaly by examining the impact of oil on the formation and Oil and Politics in the Gulf book. Read 5 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. In a analysis of political change in the Gulf, the auth Oil and Politics in the Gulf of Guinea. Ricardo Soares de Oliveira. 'This is an intelligent, well-researched, and elegantly written book.' — Political Science
The structural isolation of business goes some way in explaining Gulf capitalists' weak role in today's political arena despite a strong pre-oil history of collective
Highly dependent on uninterrupted money flows and beset by various destabilising trends, the political economy of oil in the Gulf of Guinea is poised in a state of ‘permanent crisis’. This study, based on extensive fieldwork, interviews and engagement with primary and secondary sources, is the first on the subject to take on the regional, as opposed to the country-specific, dimension. Their macabre partnership with importers, producers, and oil companies seems immune to the political tragedies festering across the Gulf of Guinea, where the state, while largely moribund, is kept from collapsing in order to keep oil flowing to its investors. Oil revenues freed rulers from the need to tax the population and consequently from their historical economic, hence political, dependence on economic elites – in the Gulf, the merchants, the group which had, before oil, pressed its claims most effectively against the state.