1st Edition
Petroleum and Politics in Iraq The Struggle for the State
TABLE OF CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
FOREWORD
CHAPTER ONE – THE IMPORTANCE OF IRAQ
1.1 A Complex Mix – Hydrocarbons, Conflict and the State
1.2 The Importance of Iraq
1.3 In Focus
1.4 Research Approach and Structure
CHAPTER TWO – THEORY: ECONOMICS, POLITICS AND COERCION
2.1 Setting the Stage
2.2 Rentier State Theory
2.3 Moving Beyond Early RST
2.4 Implications of Rentier State Theory – A Closer Look
2.5 Rentier Links to Authoritarianism
2.6 Migdal and the Politics of Survival
2.7 Viewing Survival Politics through Different Prisms
2.8 Paradox, Dilemma, and Options for Leadership
2.9 The Politics of Survival – Implications
2.10 The Role of Coercion
2.11 Giustozzi’s Seven Hypotheses
2.12 Phases of a State’s Life
2.13 Remember the Monopoly
2.14 Impacts of International Intervention
2.15 Theory to Praxis
CHAPTER THREE – IRAQ’S ECONOMY OVER TIME: FROM ROYALTY TO RENTS
3.1 Monarchy, Mandate, and Independence
3.2 The Revolutionary Period
3.3 The Ba’ath through Saddam – Boom, Bust and War
3.4 Iraq Under Sanctions
3.5 Iraq after 2003
3.6 Oil and the New Iraq
3.7 An Analysis
CHAPTER FOUR – THE POLITICS OF SURVIVAL
4.1 The British – War, Mandate, Monarchy to the Eve of Revolution (1914–1958)
4.2 The Revolutionary Period (1958–1968)
4.3 The Return of the Ba’ath (1968–1978)
4.4 Iraq Under Saddam
4.5 The US Invasion, Withdrawal and Aftermath
4.6 Iraq and the Politics of Survival – an Assessment
CHAPTER FIVE – COERCION AND THE IRAQI STATE
5.1 Monarchy, Mandate, Independence and the Monopoly
5.2 Revolutionary Iraq
5.3 The Rise of the Ba’ath through Saddam
5.4 America, Collapse and the Struggle Renewed
5.5 Assessment – Iraq and Coercion
CHAPTER SIX – CONCLUSION: THE STRUGGLE FOR IRAQ – PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
6.1 Framework and Findings
6.2 Insights and Implications
6.3 The Primacy of the Political
6.4 On International Intervention
6.5 Looking Behind, Looking Ahead
EPILOGUE
APPENDICES
Appendix 1 – United Nations Security Information Report 08 December 2005
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
Biography
John D. Moore has spent over three decades working in international security and development, serving with government, multilateral agencies, the energy industry and non-governmental organisations across parts of the Middle East, South Asia, East Africa and the Pacific Islands. Drawing upon his wealth of experience, Mr. Moore brings a unique perspective on the nexus between security and development. He holds a PhD from the Australian National University, a Master's Degree in Political Economy and International Security Studies from the Fletcher School at Tufts University, and a Bachelor of Arts in International Affairs from the Virginia Military Institute.
