Power Grab: Political Survival Through Extractive Resource Nationalization

ISBN-13: 9781108478892 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 274 str.

Paasha Mahdavi

Opis

Explores how dictators maintain their grip on power by seizing control of oil, metals, and minerals production.

Recenzje

'Challenging conventional understandings of resource nationalization as the domain of strong rulers whose tenures are secure, Paasha Mahdavi carefully maps out and then demonstrates how much nationalization is in fact a strategy borne of political insecurity. Power Grab deftly weaves cross-national econometrics and carefully crafted comparative historical analysis to show how. Mahdavi's analysis of the domestic and global-economic milieu in which leaders like Qaddafi gambled on, and won through, resource seizures, represents an ambitious and formidable new scholarly voice in the study of resource politics.' Benjamin Smith, University of Florida

Spis treści

1. The puzzle of extractive resource nationalization; 2. The theory of political survival through nationalization; 3. Defining and measuring operational nationalization; 4. Why nationalize? Evidence from national oil companies around the world; 5. NOCs, oil revenues, and leadership survival; 6. The dynamics of nationalization in Pahlavi Iran; 7. Conclusion: the implications of nationalization.