The United States and Turkey were extraordinarily close allies during most of the Cold War with Turkey being central to U.S. Pauly, Dylan Tyner Format: Hardback Release Date: As the oil market undergoes a period of rapid change, Oil, the State, and War sheds light on the diversity of petrostates and how they shape international affairs.Īuthor: Tom Lansford, Robert J. Instead, this book highlights the agency and power enjoyed by petrostates. Experts have too often treated oil-rich states as passive objects, subject to the energy security needs of Western importing states.
Through a combination of case studies and analysis, she illustrates how oil shapes petrostates' behavior, filling a major gap in our understanding of the international implications of oil wealth. To help us conceptualize these differences, Ashford creates an original classification of three types of petrostates: oil-dependent states (those weakened by the resource curse), oil-wealthy states (those made rich by oil exports), and super-producer states (those that form the backbone of the global oil market). Not all petrostates have the same characteristics or capabilities. In Oil, the State, and War, Emma Ashford explores the many potential links between domestic oil production and foreign policy behavior and how oil production influences global politics. These states' wealth props up the global arms trade, provides diplomatic leverage, and allows them to support violent and nonviolent proxies.
Drawing on first-hand, on-the-ground reporting,Dancing on Bonesargues that if we want to understand where these three nuclear powers are heading, we must understand the stories they are telling their citizens about the past.Īuthor: Emma Ashford Format: Hardback Release Date: Ī comprehensive challenge to prevailing understanding of international implications of oil wealth that shows why it can create bad actors In a world where oil-rich states are more likely to start war than their oil-dependent counterparts, it's surprising how little attention is still paid to these so-called petrostates. But this didn't start with Putin, Xi, and Kim, and it won't end with them. Since coming to power, Xi Jinping has almost doubled the length of China's World War II, Vladimir Putin has elevated the memory of the Great Patriotic War to the status of a national religion, and Kim Jong Un has invested vast sums in rebuilding war museums in his impoverished state, while those who try to challenge the official version of history are silenced and jailed. These three states consistently top lists of threats to US and European security, and yet the leaders of all three insist that it is their country that is threatened, rewriting history and exploiting the memory of the wars of the last century to justify their actions and shore up popular support. China has stepped up war games near Taiwan and militarized the South China Sea, while North Korea has resumed missile testing and blood-curdling threats against the United States.
Russia has annexed Crimea, started a war in eastern Ukraine, and repeatedly massed troops on its borders. This is the phenomenon Katie Stallard tackles inDancing on Bones, as she examines how the leaders of China, Russia, and North Korea manipulate the past to serve the present and secure the future of authoritarian rule. Instead, autocrats and populist strongmen are on the rise, and the global order established after 1945 is under attack. America's leading role in the world is no longer assured. Author: Katie (Fellow, Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars) Stallard Format: Hardback Release Date:
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