Energy kingdoms : oil and political survival in the Persian Gulf / Jim Krane.

After the discovery of oil in the 1930s, the Gulf monarchies--Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Bahrain--went from being among the world's poorest and most isolated places to some of its most ostentatiously wealthy. To maintain support, the ruling sheikhs provide their...

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Uniform Title:Center on Global Energy Policy series.
Main Author: Krane, Jim (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2019]
Series:Center on Global Energy Policy series.
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Physical Description:xi, 206 pages ; 24 cm.
Format: Book

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505 0 |a Before oil -- The oil age arrives -- The big payback -- From energy poverty to energy extremism -- Unnaturally cool -- We have a serious problem -- Iran and Dubai lead the way -- Shifting gears in Saudi Arabia -- The politics of reform -- Conclusion: the climate hedge. 
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