Global climate change is opening up new questions and reinvigorating old lines of inquiry in
the study of international energy politics. Many policymakers and stakeholders are pushing …

We explored the effect of globalization and international geopolitical risks on Saudi Arabia's
economic development via the channel of Saudi's oil rent during the period 1970–2018. In …

Economic diversification is important for building sustainable economic growth. Thus, an
economy that is highly dependent on income from a natural resource is in danger of …

We argue that economic links, such as supply chains, can create a common roof that
protects foreign investors in host countries that lack strong institutions to protect property …

Scholars have long debated the causal impact of international institutions such as the World
Trade Organization or the International Monetary Fund. This study investigates Organization …

In the recent times, natural resources volatility (TNR) got the scholarly attention due to
significant variations in demand and supply of natural resources. Beside demand and …

There is extraordinary variation in how governments treat multinational corporations in
emerging economies; in fact, governments around the world have nationalized or eaten …

The ʽresource curseʼ is the view that countries with extensive natural resources tend to
suffer from a host of undesirable outcomes, including the weakening of state capacity …

Since the 1990s it has become conventional wisdom that an abundance of natural
resources, most notably oil, is very likely to become a developmental “curse.” Recent …

Oil-exporting countries are often advised to diversify their economies, yet surprisingly little is
known about how this can be done. Research on this issue has been constrained by …