oil

This study examines the question of whether or not Saudi Arabia, which is dependent on revenues from oil exports, is succeeding in developing alternative and non-depletable sources of income. The fourth Saudi development plan refers explicitly to "prudent self-sufficiency" as a …

This study examines the factor of Japan's dual dependence on American foreign policy leadership and on Gulf oil in Japan's Middle East policy following the 1973 oil crisis. The crisis was significant because it was the first time in the post-World War II period that Japan deviat…

This essay examines the relations between the production of oil and gas, the global expansion of capital and the territorial control and division of geographical space. The main argument is that the historical expansion of capital, and the subsequent inter-capitalist competition…

This study is about the burgeoning crisis in Nigeria's Oil Producing Niger Delta region. Discerning the intersecting contributive factors to the crisis, this dissertation suggests that the Niger Delta crisis is symptomatic of challenges to development in Nigeria. Due to the insi…

While economic explanations for the "resource curse" are well established, the political factors explaining why governments fail to take corrective action remain poorly understood. Research has shown that if governments save oil profits abroad and slowly re-introduce the oil-gen…

In July 1979, Nigeria’s federal military government declared a 100% takeover of select operations belonging to the London-based oil company, British Petroleum (BP). The takeover of BP marked the takeover of Nigeria’s most lucrative industry that had been controlled by foreign in…

This dissertation constructs a framework for understanding the determinants of remittances. It develops the effects of multiple macro economic variables in one area in the Middle East on the remittances flows and the future development of (another Arab neighboring country) Egypt…

The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of oil price fluctuations and oil revenues on the main macroeconomic variables in oil based labor importing economies and labor exporting economies, represented by Saudi Arabia and Pakistan respectively. Numerous academic st…

This dissertation consists of three chapters. Chapter one presents a theoretical model using a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) approach to investigate the role of world oil prices in explaining the business cycle in Saudi Arabia. This model incorporates both produc…

Three events that disrupted worldwide monetary stability divided the twentieth century into distinct historical periods. The end of the international gold standard in 1932, the devaluation of the dollar in 1971, and the collapse of oil prices in 1986 disrupted economic and polit…

The existing literature in international relations has shown that the study of international behavior has predominantly been concentrated on the great powers, thus paying little heed to the role of developing countries in world politics. This study set out to rectify this anomal…

The premise of this research is to determine when the end of rentierism will occur in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as well as what actions the government is taking to prepare for it. After compiling population growth, domestic consumption demand, and depreciating oil production i…