Altın ve petrol piyasalarının analizinin yapıldığı bu çalışma üç bölümden oluşmaktadır. Çalışmanın ilk bölümü olan giriş bölümünde, çalışma kapsamında incelenen konular ile ilgili ön bilgiler yer almaktadır. Çalışmanın ikinci bölümünde altın piyasaları, altının özellikleri, düny…
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Saudi Arabia continues to be an anomaly for democratic researchers because of its assumed vast wealth. It also continues to be a hot bed for radical Islamist rhetoric. Oil’s relationship with democracy asserts that the presence of the former prevents that latter by mere happenst…
The experiences and responses of individuals living in mineral enclaves command a lot of scholarly attention. Such attention is evident in the Niger Delta of Nigeria where neoliberal oil exploration has gone on for the past five decades. Yet missing in the delta narratives is th…
Why do some autocrats redistribute resource rents through high welfare spending, while others do not? Conventional wisdom suggests that authoritarian leaders unconstrained by institutions and with unlimited access to resource wealth would siphon off these funds for themselves an…
This dissertation examines the effect of oil wealth on a country's business environment and government policymaking towards firms and entrepreneurs. It begins with a game theoretic approach that derives hypotheses about business environment reforms given the interests of the gov…
Grain sorghum (GS) lipid has shown its ability to positively modulate plasma, hepatic cholesterol and gut microbiota in a hamster model. Responsible lipid ingredients as well as their target and off-target effects on cellular metabolism have not yet been studied as a potential s…
This dissertation examines British oil policy from the aftermath of the Suez Crisis in 1956-1957 until the Iranian Revolution and the electoral victory of Margaret Thatcher's Conservative Party in 1979. It was a period marked by major transitions within Britain's oil policy as w…
Economic development, including foreign direct investment (FDI), is important for every country; however, it's vital in those countries that have gone through armed conflict and are living its aftermath. To improve on their predicament and fulfill their aspiration of becoming de…
This project empirically analyzes Domhoff's higher circles and the power structures of the Middle East Institute (MEI). Domhoff proposes a community of corporate owners and executive managers dominate control of the US, creating an upper social class through institutions that fa…
This dissertation addresses the Ijaw/Ijo armed resistance movement for self-determination waged by young men against multinational oil companies and the Federal Government of Nigeria in the Niger Delta. I investigated the reciprocity of violence, the transgression of social orde…
This study examines the human security impacts of Angola and Sudan's foreign relations toward China. Sino-African relations are becoming increasingly important as global powers search for strategic resources, notably petroleum, to bolster economic development. A review of trade …
Petro-Sexual Politics: Global Oil, Legitimate Violence, and Transnational Justice argues that the frameworks of global politics depend upon simultaneous moments of gender violence. Petro-Sexual Politics explores how historical specificities of U.S.-Nigerian relations inform larg…
This thesis describes US national security consequences of oil market power, the political economy of petroleum in one cartel state, Iran, and some security implications of Irani petroleum. We explore a hypothesis relating oil to national security under an assumption of resource…
In his influential book, Seeing Like a State , James Scott described modernity as a uniquely governmental way of looking at and ordering society. But what happens when a corporation carries out modernization? Primarily concerned with the security of the oil concession, the Arabi…
The books of 1 and 2 Kings explicitly focus on the ideological motivations of the DtrH, but within this narrative, the text leaves intrinsic clues on the economic structures within ancient Israel. This study uses the anthropological paradigm of Karl Polanyi as a lens to analyze …
The Caspian region is considered to be one of the next oil and gas frontiers. Along with the re-distribution of political power and the emergence of new balances after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the continuous waves of change also have had significant effects on the prosp…
The nineteenth century rivalry between the Russian Empire and Great Britain over Central Asia, known as the "great game," was triggered by the quest for power and dominance. This study revisits Sir Halford Mackinder's thesis, which viewed the "heartland," consisting of Russia an…
Experience has shown that the response of oil wells to sandstone matrix acidizing is different from the response of gas wells. For oil wells, the improvement in permeability resulting from the stimulation treatment peaks at a certain acid volume and then decreases as the acid vo…
This study explores varying outcomes of energy cooperation, defined as diplomatic relations, bilateral trade, and investment in oil and natural gas. Tests of theories pertinent to energy security - broadly speaking, realism, liberalism, and domestic politics—reveal that they alo…