Reasons of State: Oil Politics and the Capacities of American Government, G. John Ikenberry

Автор: Ikenberry, G. John
Название: Reasons of state
ISBN: 1501727966 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501727962
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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In this lucid and theoretically sophisticated book, G. John Ikenberry focuses on the oil price shocks of 1973–74 and 1979, which placed extraordinary new burdens on governments worldwide and particularly on that of the United States. Reasons of State examines the response of the United States to these and other challenges and identifies both the capacities of the American state to deal with rapid international political and economic change and the limitations that constrain national policy.

Автор: K. Hanson; C. D`Alessandro; F. Owusu
Название: Managing Africa`s Natural Resources
ISBN: 1349473790 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349473793
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: The authors investigate well-known concerns in natural resource management in Africa while focusing on the capacity dimension of the problems. They examine dynamics of leadership, governance, criminality, structural transformation, as well as emerging issues such as green growth.

Автор: Capano G., Howlett M., Ramesh M.
Название: Varieties of Governance: Dynamics, Strategies, Capacities
ISBN: 1349502197 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349502196
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: This edited collection examines various facets of governance - the organization and steering of political processes within society - for a better understanding of the complexities of contemporary policy making.

Автор: Rivka Azoulay
Название: Kuwait and Al-Sabah: Tribal Politics and Power in an Oil State
ISBN: 1838605053 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781838605056
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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The Emirate of Kuwait hardly resembles the city-State it was at the start of the 20th century. The discovery of oil in 1938 rapidly transformed the tiny tribal sheikhdom of the Al-Sabah into a modern oil-producing state where, by the early 1980s, citizens enjoying one of the highest standards of living in the world. While much has been written on the reasons why and how the Al-Sabah became a ruling dynasty, little is known about the nature of their authority and its relationship to Kuwait's social structure. Rivka Azoulay shows how despite the rapidity of change in the oil-rich, family-run emirate, it is the pre-oil dynamics of social and political life that dictate how society operates.
The book starts with an analysis of pre-oil society in Kuwait by focusing on the ruling elite's relationship with its periphery. It then provides an account of the fundamentals of the Al-Sabah's authority structure since the mid-19th century and regime-society relations following Kuwait's consolidation into an oil state. The last part looks at the rise of previously marginalized tribesmen in politics since the invasion and how their emancipation transcends the divisions between Kuwait's traditional social groups (hadar, Shia and badu) and represents a broader middle-class struggle. Rivka Azoulay shows that Kuwait's ambitious diversification plans to reduce oil-dependence by 2035 require a renegotiation of the regime's pact with society, which threatens the pre-oil alliances upon which the Al-Sabah's regime has been built. The book makes a new argument about the relationship between the ruling elite and the periphery and gets to the heart of the nature of political authority of the Al-Sabah dynasty.

Автор: Noreng, Oystein
Название: The Oil Business and the State
ISBN: 0367860147 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367860141
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: National oil companies are big business with about eighty percent of the world`s proven oil reserves, and they are crucial to the world`s energy supplies.

Автор: Kemp, Alex
Название: The Official History of North Sea Oil and Gas
ISBN: 0415447542 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415447546
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Автор: Noreng, ?ystein
Название: The Oil Business and the State
ISBN: 1032119268 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781032119267
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Автор: Rivka Azoulay
Название: Kuwait and Al-Sabah: Tribal Politics and Power in an Oil State
ISBN: 0755650980 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780755650989
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: The Emirate of Kuwait hardly resembles the city-State it was at the start of the 20th century. The discovery of oil in 1938 rapidly transformed the tiny tribal sheikhdom of the Al-Sabah into a modern oil-producing state where, by the early 1980s, citizens were enjoying one of the highest standards of living in the world. While much has been written on the reasons why and how the Al-Sabah became a ruling dynasty, little is known about the nature of their authority and its relationship to Kuwait’s social structure. Rivka Azoulay shows how despite the rapidity of change in the oil-rich, family-run emirate, it is the pre-oil dynamics of social and political life that dictate how society operates. The author shows that Kuwait’s ambitious diversification plans to reduce oil-dependence by 2035 require a renegotiation of the regime’s pact with society, which threatens the pre-oil alliances upon which the Al-Sabah’s regime has been built.

Автор: Crystal
Название: Kuwait: the Transformation of an Oil State
ISBN: 1138194549 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138194540
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Kuwait, unlike most of its neighbours, has a well-established national identity and a long history as a nation, dating back to the eighteenth century. In this book, first published in 1992, Dr. Jill Crystal focuses on two recurring themes in Kuwaiti history: one, the preservation of a sense of community in the face of radical economic, social and political transformations; the second, internal rivalry over the conventions governing relations among members of the community. Crystal skilfully weaves these themes into a broad profile of Kuwait, analysing the nation's transformation from a pre-oil to an oil economy; its social structure and composition, including the country's tribal roots and key divisions involving class, gender and immigrant labour; political tensions resulting from the nation's sudden wealth and the accompanying changes in social structure; and its relations with other countries in the Gulf and the Middle East.

Автор: Vyas
Название: Soft Power in Japan-China Relations
ISBN: 0415855357 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415855358
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Описание: Soft power is overlooked in the field of international relations, dismissed as lacking relevance or robustness as a theoretical concept. This book expands upon the idea of `soft power` in international relations and investigates how soft power actually functions by looking at three case studies in Japan-China relations.

Автор: Kawabata, Eiji
Название: Contemporary government reform in japan
ISBN: 1403971129 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781403971128
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: This book examines several major reforms in Japan - in the postal business, transportation, telecommunications and technology - and evaluates the impact of these changes since the early 1980s. Conceptually, the book presents the dual state as being a fundamental feature of the Japanese political economy that determines government reform dynamics.

Автор: Mandel Robert
Название: Global Security Upheaval
ISBN: 0804784981 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780804784986
Издательство: Wiley EDC
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This book calls into question the commonly held contentions that central governments are the most important or even the sole sources of a nation's stability, and that subnational and transnational nonstate forces are a major source of global instability.

By assessing recent real-world trends, Mandel reveals that areas exist where it makes little sense to rely on state governments for stability, and that attempts to bolster such governments to promote stability often prove futile. He demonstrates how armed nonstate groups can sometimes provide local stability better than states, and how power-sharing arrangements between states and armed nonstate groups may sometimes be viable. He concludes that these trends in the international setting call for major shifts in our understanding of what constitutes stable governance—proposing that we adopt a fluid "emergent actor" approach. And he calls for significant deviation from standard policy responses to the opportunities and dangers posed by nontraditional sources of national authority.