Energy Kingdoms : : Oil and Political Survival in the Persian Gulf / / Jim Krane.
After the discovery of oil in the 1930s, the Gulf monarchies-Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Bahrain-went from being among the world's poorest and most isolated places to some of its most ostentatiously wealthy. To maintain support, the ruling sheikhs provide th...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2019] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Center on Global Energy Policy Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 17 figures |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- 1. Before Oil
- 2. The Oil Age Arrives
- 3. The Big Payback
- 4. From Energy Poverty to Energy Extremism
- 5. Unnaturally Cool
- 6. We Have a Serious Problem
- 7. Iran and Dubai Lead the Way
- 8. Shifting Gears in Saudi Arabia
- 9. The Politics of Reform
- Conclusion: The Climate Hedge
- NOTES
- INDEX