The Politics of International Oil

Gov 365P/MES 322K: Class 15

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The news - in the real world:

• War in Sudan? Not Where the Oil Wealth Flows NYT Oct. 24, 2006
• The international oil market: imports and exports (BP stats)

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From last time:

video War for Oil - who has the oil? (map locations) (about Caspian pipelines)

• Geopolitics of pipelines: Baku to Europe; from Russia to Europe
• The China-Russia factor - a long border - Russia becoming a "cheap Chinese gas station?"
• Prospects for China - and pipelines - for the -stans (Kazakhstan (President Nursultan Nazarbayev), Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan) - the Shanghai Cooperation Organization founded in 2001
• SCO program with Afghanistan versus drugs and terrorism
• rentier states
• Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev succeeded father Ilham Aliyev in 2003
• Georgia - President Mikheil Saakashvili (replaced Eduard Shevardnadze in bloodless 2003 coup)

The Prize: Iraq - video: Fighting for Oil

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Oct. 21, 2009 Department of Government, University of Texas at Austin.

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