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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 The Nature of a Political Resource
The condition of the resource: growing uncertainty, declining quality
The shape of demand: lighter, cleaner, Asian
Actors: states, firms, and civil society
The geopolitics of the hydrocarbon chain
Conclusion
Notes
2 Capturing Oil
States: oil landlords, national champions, and regulators
Firms: integration, independents, and the precariousness of “Big Oil”
Negotiating access: resource-holding states versus resource-seeking firms
Extending the network
Conclusion
Notes
3 Marketing Oil
Standardizing products
Managing abundance
Oil markets and shifts in pricing power
Conclusion
Notes
4 Living With Oil
Making a living
Oil as life: the soft power of petroculture
Conclusion
Notes
5 Securing Oil
Oil wars
Energy security
Availability
Accessibility
Affordability
Acceptability
Conclusion
Notes
6 Developing Through Oil
Accounting for oil in development
Accounting for environmental and social costs
Oil revenues: who gets what?
The “oil curse”
Conclusion
Notes
7 Governing Oil
Addressing the oil governance deficit
Oil governance actors and institutions
The (real) politics of oil governance
Conclusion
Notes
8 Better and Beyond: The Future of Oil
Oil’s new reality
Responding to the new reality
Four priorities
Conclusion
Notes
Selected Readings
Index
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