Last weekend, major changes were made at Tunisia’s national congress. We published three excellent pieces about it on the Monkey…
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POMEPS Conversations: Michael Herb (S. 3, Ep. 8)
#43 — December 29, 2014. The George Washington University’s Marc Lynch, director of the Project on Middle East Political Science,…
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#1 – February 8, 2012. The George Washington University’s Marc Lynch speaks with Timothy Mitchell, professor and chair of…
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“Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil” A conversation with Timothy Mitchell
Timothy Mitchell is Professor and Chair of the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University.…
Continue Reading“Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil” A conversation with Timothy Mitchell
Timothy Mitchell is Professor and Chair of the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University.
Continue ReadingDo Natural Resources Fuel Authoritarianism? A Reappraisal of the Resource Curse
Is natural resource wealth a blessing or a curse? Stephen Haber and Victor Menaldo argue that the resource curse may…
Continue ReadingOil and Revolutionary Governments: Fuel for International Conflict
Petrostates are more likely than other states to engage in militarized interstate disputes (MIDs). What explains this correlation? In the…
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Why do some oil-rich rentier states manage to create succesful state-owned enterprises when so many similar states fall prey to…
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