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Hard Times in the Lands of Plenty : Oil Politics in Iran and Indonesia.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2007Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (257 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801461866
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Hard Times in the Lands of PlentyDDC classification:
  • 338.27280955
LOC classification:
  • HD9576.I62 -- S65 2007eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Hard Times in the Lands of Plenty -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Oil Wealth and Politics in the Developing World: Theories and Evidence -- 2. Explaining Regime Durability in Oil-Rich States: Oil, Opposition, and Late Development -- 3. The Impact and Legacies of Oil and Late Development: Coalitions and State Building before the Boom -- 4. The Oil Booms and Beyond: Two Exporting States Confront Crisis -- 5. Oil, Opposition, and Late Development: Regime Breakdown and Persistence in Twenty-One Oil-Exporting States -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- References -- Index.
Summary: Smith deciphers the paradox of the resource curse and questions its inevitability through an innovative comparison of the experiences of Iran and Indonesia.
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Cover -- Hard Times in the Lands of Plenty -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Oil Wealth and Politics in the Developing World: Theories and Evidence -- 2. Explaining Regime Durability in Oil-Rich States: Oil, Opposition, and Late Development -- 3. The Impact and Legacies of Oil and Late Development: Coalitions and State Building before the Boom -- 4. The Oil Booms and Beyond: Two Exporting States Confront Crisis -- 5. Oil, Opposition, and Late Development: Regime Breakdown and Persistence in Twenty-One Oil-Exporting States -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- References -- Index.

Smith deciphers the paradox of the resource curse and questions its inevitability through an innovative comparison of the experiences of Iran and Indonesia.

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