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Every Wednesday, March 2 – May 4, 2022; 10:00am-11:30am Eastern Time
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Description: In the social sciences, it is a common phenomenon that nation states with an abundance of natural resources are governed by authoritarian regimes and rife with corruption. A substantial portion of the literature in the field of political economy argues that economic and fiscal reliance on natural resources helps create and institutionalize kleptocratic political systems. In this seminar, we will examine how resource abundance, especially high dependence on oil income, has a detrimental effect on democracy. Russia, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan will serve as case studies.
This seminar will focus on corruption and kleptocracy in rentier states - states which derive all or a substantial portion of revenue by renting resources to foreign powers. We will outline the various complex and interrelated aspects of natural resource governance, including rentier effects, the centralization of power and wealth, "state capture", “resource curse”, and “Dutch disease”.
This seminar will explore the major effects of the rentier economy and natural resources on democracy and state building, as well as the role of reform in the prevention of the “resource curse”. During the seminar, participants will analyze corruption and kleptocracy as outcomes of poor governance of natural resources and rentier economies, discuss the concept of “resource nationalism”, and use case studies to analyze the effect of “oil booms” on governance.
Weekly Readings: Will be available on the New University in Exile Consortium's website linked here.
More Information: Participants who attend at least 8 complete seminar sessions will receive a certificate of satisfactory completion from the Dean of The New School for Social Research. In order to obtain the certificate, participants must register and log in with the same email address each week.
Registration will remain open for the duration of the seminar. Registrants will receive a reminder email with the Zoom link each week. The seminar sessions will be recorded and available to registrants on Vimeo the following week.
Presented by The New University in Exile Consortium at The New School for Social Research.
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Gubad Ibadoghlu is a political economist from Azerbaijan. He has commenced his career at Economic Research Center since 1999. He is senior policy analyst for social and economic studies at Azerbaijan’s Economic Research Center, a Baku-based NGO that promotes economic development and good governance. Dr. Ibadoghlu was a member of the Steering Committee of the EU Eastern Partnership Program’s Civil Society Forum (CSF) and served as a representative of Eurasian’s civil societies representative to the international board of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) for 2013–2019. Before becoming a current Senior Visiting Fellow at LSE, he was an affiliated postdoc fellow in the Rutgers’ Centre for European Studies. He taught four courses (International Political Economy, Globalization, Democracy and Contemporary Capitalism, Economics of Transition, Economics of Natural Resources for Sustainable Development) in the Department of Political Science and Economics at Rutgers University during the 2018-2021 academic years.
Leila Alieva is an affiliate of the Russian and East European Studies at the Oxford School for Global and Area Studies and a tutor at the Oxford University Department for Continued Education. Prior to that she was a member of the Senior Common Room of the St. Antony’s College of the University of Oxford and the academic visitor. Dr. Alieva’s research focus is on the political economy of oil, conflicts, democracy building and energy security. She has also been a consultant to EBRD and oil companies. Previously she was a post-doctoral researcher at Harvard University, UC Berkeley, a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center (Kennan Institute), NATO defense college (Rome), National Endowment for Democracy (Wash. DC), Paul Nitze School for International Studies (Johns Hopkins University). Most recently, she was awarded a Richard von Weizsäcker Fellowship at the Robert Bosch Academy.
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