Ownership And Control Of Oil

Download or read book The Politics of Oil written by Dag Harald Claes and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-30 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Politics of Oil brings together legal studies, economics, and political science to illustrate how governments gain and exercise control over oil resources and how political actors influence the global oil market, both individually and in cooperation with each other. The author also investigates the role of oil in preserving regime stability, in civil wars and in inter-state conflicts, as well as discussing the possible implications for the oil industry from policies to combat climate change.