Oil's influence on Arab politics

Assumptions about oil’s influence on politics in the Middle East should be reversed. Instead of oil buttressing autocracy, autocracy among oil exporters buttresses oil by encouraging consumption, energy fellow Jim Krane argues in the new article “Energy and the State in the Middle East.”

The article appears as a chapter in the book “Delivering Energy Law and Policy in the E.U. and the U.S.: A Reader,” which was co-edited by Raphael Heffron and Gavin Little and published by Edinburgh University Press.