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- Public Affairs: Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power
05/09/2012
ExxonMobil is rather like France, says Steve Coll. It's mostly aligned with the U.S; it's sometimes opposed, but a lot of the time it's just busy keeping track of its own separate system and really doesn't want to be entangled in U.S. power unless it serves ExxonMobil interests.
05/09/12 - The Oil Curse: How Petroleum Wealth Shapes the Development of Nations
03/12/2012
According to Michael Ross, it's no coincidence that major oil-producing countries have less democracy, fewer opportunities for women, more frequent civil wars, and more volatile economic growth than the rest of the world.
03/12/12 - Leif Wenar on Natural Resources and Clean Trade Policies
06/02/2011
Consumers in countries that import natural resources are often unwittingly in business with dictators, corrupt officials, and armed groups, says Leif Wenar. Yet we could change our laws to make powerful groups in exporting countries more accountable to their own people.
06/02/11 - Michael Doyle on Nonintervention and the Responsibility to Protect
03/10/2010
What circumstances justify overriding sovereignty? Michael Doyle discusses the difficult questions surrounding nonintervention and the "unanimous revolution" of 2005, which led to the new norm known as the Responsibility to Protect.
03/10/10 - Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil
10/06/2009
From Ecuador to Nigeria, in most oil-producing countries oil has not brought any benefits to the poor and has often damaged people's health and ruined the environment, says Peter Maass. As for Iraq, although the war was not "all about oil," oil certainly played an important role.
10/06/09 - A Slick Solution for Oil Markets
10/16/2008
Although oil prices are declining, the global oil market is out of whack and prices remain high, causing economic suffering around the world. To get things back on track, policymakers will have to attempt some slick solutions.
10/16/08 - Oil and Turmoil
03/12/2008
Despite oil's tortured history, it must not be summarily dismissed as a cause of turmoil in Africa.
03/12/08 - Business Ethics Gone Without TRACE
02/29/2008
As a neutral third party, TRACE works with commercial competitors to address the challenges they all face, delivering an antibribery message to corrupt officials.
02/29/08 - The Resource Curse: Stopping the Flow of Stolen Resources (Part 3)
02/01/2008
Calculations show that oil companies illicitly transport into the U.S. over 600 million barrels of oil each year. This is 12.7 percent of U.S. oil imports--more than one barrel in eight.
02/01/08 - The Resource Curse: Might Makes the Right to Sell? (Part 2)
02/01/2008
Customary practices left over from the era of absolute state sovereignty still give property rights to whoever can exert coercive control over a population. This might-makes-right rule contradicts the movement toward citizen ownership of natural resources.
02/01/08 - The Resource Curse: Property Rights and the Resource Curse (Part 1)
02/01/2008
Because of a major flaw in the international trade system, consumers in rich countries unknowingly buy stolen goods every day. The raw materials used to make these goods are taken from the poorest people in the world, by stealth and by force.
02/01/08