Beyond the resource curse

470 Pages·2012·5.162 MB·English

by  Taleh Ziyadov, Brenda Shaffer

BEYOND THE
RESOURCE CURSE

BEYOND THE
RESOURCE CURSE
Edited by
Brenda Shaffer
and Taleh Ziyadov
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
PHILADELPHIA
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Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data
Beyond the resource curse / edited by Brenda Shaff er and
Taleh Ziyadov.—1st ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978- 0- 8122- 4400- 7 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1. Resource curse. 2. Power resources. 3. Energy
policy. 4. Petroleum reserves. 5. Natural gas reserves.
6. International relations. I. Shaff er, Brenda.
II. Ziyadov, Taleh.
HD9502.A2B49 2011
333.7—dc23 2011033177
CONTENTS
Introduction 1
Brenda Shaff er
Part I: Economics and Infrastructures of Energy Exporters
1. Th e Natural Resource Curse: A Survey 17
Jeff rey Frankel
2. Sometimes the Grass Is Indeed Greener:
Th e Successful Use of Energy Revenues 58
Patrick Clawson
3. Is Th ere a Policy Learning Curve?
Trinidad and Tobago and the 2004– 8 Hydrocarbon Boom 84
Richard M. Auty
4. Th e Illusion of Unlimited Supply:
Iran and Energy Subsidies 110
Ahmad Mojtahed
5. Challenges Facing Central Banks in Oil- Exporting
Countries: Th e Case of Azerbaijan 137
Elkin Nurmammadov
6. Power to the Producers: Th e Challenges of Electricity
Provision in Major Energy- Exporting States 161
Th eresa Sabonis- Helf
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Part II: Energy Exports, Society, and Politics
7. Th e Impact of Energy Resources on
Nation- and State- Building: Th e Contrasting Cases
of Azerbaijan and Georgia 203
Murad Ismayilov
8. Education Reform in Energy- Exporting States:
Th e Post- Soviet Experience in Comparative Perspective 225
Regine A. Spector
9. Is Norway Really Norway? 259
Ole Andreas Engen, Oluf Langhelle, and Reidar Bratvold
Part III: Energy Exporters in the International Po liti cal System
10. Energy Exporters and the International Energy Agency 283
Richard Jones
11. Resource Nationalism and Oil Development:
Profi t or Peril? 295
Amy M. Jaff e
12. Natural Resources, Domestic Instability,
and International Confl icts 313
Elnur Soltanov
13. Petroleum, Governance, and Fragility:
Th e Micro- Politics of Petroleum in Postconfl ict States 330
Naazneen H. Barma
Conclusion: Constant Perils, Policy Responses,
and Lessons to Be Learned 352
Taleh Ziyadov
Contents vii
Notes 371
Contributors 449
Index 453
Ac know ledg ments 465

BEYOND THE
RESOURCE CURSE