Crude Democracy: Natural Resource Wealth and Political Regimes (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
Product DescriptionThis book challenges the conventional wisdom that natural resource wealth promotes autocracy. Oil and other forms of mineral wealth can promote both authoritarianism and democracy, the book argues, but they do so through... More >> Crude Democracy: Natural Resource Wealth and Political Regimes (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil
Product DescriptionHow oil undermines democracy, and our ability to address the environmental crisis.Oil is a curse, it is often said, that condemns the countries producing it to an existence defined by war, corruption and... More >> Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil
Dealings: A Political and Financial Life
Product DescriptionIt was a German soldier’s chance decision to reach for a cigarette and absently wave a car through a checkpoint outside Marseille in 1940 that allowed Felix Rohatyn and his Jewish family to escape from Nazi-occupied Fr... More >> Dealings: A Political and Financial Life