The resource curse literature suggests two stylized facts about oilproducing states petrostates that are not easily reconciled with each other. Resource wars, including coverage of struggles over access to oil, have been the. If oil rents other factors constant, a revolutionary petrostate is 249 percent free governments from negotiating. When oil causes war, colgan finds that petrostates countries where revenue from oil exports exceeds 10 percent of gdp are twice as likely to engage in interstate conflict than nonpetrostates.
Petroaggression presents a clear theoretical argument, which it supports with a wealth of qualitative and quantitative data. When oil causes war, jeff colgan provides an indispensable starting point for researchers interested in the relationship between oil and international conflict. The widespread assumption that a choice of market reforms presupposes a nonsecuritised path of energy policies makes the desecuritisation of energy politics an essentially rationalistdriven. When oil causes war, i explore the relationship between oil exporting petrostates defined by having oil exports of at least 10 percent of gdp and aggressive foreign policy. Reader can get many real examples that can be great knowledge. Read petroaggression when oil causes war by jeff d. It remains unclear whether the pattern of petroaggression found in oilrich. America has the unfortunate habit of getting into war with oil exporting states, said colgan. Unpacking the nexus between market liberalisation and. Cambridge core middle east studies petroaggression by jeff d. Many analysts expect that a decline in natural resources and a rise in resource demand will increase the risk of interstate war in the coming decades. A state is more likely to instigate international conflict when it has a combination of a oil income and b a. Why are some but not all oil exporting petrostates aggressive. Jeff colgan is the richard holbrooke assistant professor of political science and international affairs at the watson institute of brown university.
To answer this question, a theory of aggressive foreign policy preferences is developed and then tested, using both quantitative and qualitative methods. Petroaggression shows that oil creates incentives that increase a petrostates aggression, but also incentives for the opposite. I argue that the effect of this oil income depends heavily on the domestic politics of the petrostate. There are some stories that are showed in the book. When oil causes war oil is the worlds single most important commodity and its political effects are pervasive. The geopolitics of the energy transformation irena. Having an energy conversation without talking about climate is like talking about smoking and not talking about cancer. Jeff colgan significantly expands our understanding of the relationship between oil and war, explaining the domestic politics of oil s role in enabling revolutionary leaders to pursue aggressive foreign policies. Oil is the worlds single most important commodity and its. One study suggests that petrorevolutionary states are 250 percent more likely to instigate international conflicts than a typical country. On the effect of natural resources on interstate war.