Oil Archives - Project on Middle East Political Science

Week in Review: Podcast and Monkey Cage Round-Up

Last weekend, major changes were made at Tunisia’s national congress. We published three excellent pieces about it on the Monkey…

#43 — December 29, 2014. The George Washington University’s Marc Lynch, director of the Project on Middle East Political Science,…

#1 – February 8, 2012. The George Washington University’s Marc Lynch speaks with Timothy Mitchell, professor and chair of…

Timothy Mitchell is Professor and Chair of the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University.…

Timothy Mitchell is Professor and Chair of the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University.

Is natural resource wealth a blessing or a curse? Stephen Haber and Victor Menaldo argue that the resource curse may…

Petrostates are more likely than other states to engage in militarized interstate disputes (MIDs). What explains this correlation? In the…

Oil, Security

Why do some oil-rich rentier states manage to create succesful state-owned enterprises when so many similar states fall prey to…