Author: New York Public Library. Research LibrariesPublisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 856
Book Description
Bibliographic Guide to Government Publications
Author: New York Public Library. Research LibrariesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 856
Book Description
National Union Catalog
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
The Paradox of Plenty
Author: Terry Lynn KarlPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520207726
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
In these countries, dependence on petroleum leads to disproportionate fiscal reliance on petrodollars and public spending, at the expense of statecraft.
Bulletin of the Pan American Union
Author: Pan American UnionPublisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description
Juan Vicente Gómez and the Oil Companies in Venezuela, 1908-1935
Author: B. S. McBethPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521892186
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
The book examines the relationship between Gómez's government and the oil companies.
The United States and Venezuela during the First World War
Author: H. Micheal TarverPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1498511104
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
This book details the diplomatic relations between the United States and Venezuela during a pivotal time in world history. Through the utilization of archival materials and newspaper accounts, the author highlights the words of the major participants to demonstrate how the two nations worked together – sometimes hand-in-hand, sometimes face-to-face – to prevent the European War from spreading to the Western Hemisphere. Despite several efforts to develop hemispheric unity during the War, Venezuelan leaders perceived the policy of neutrality to be in the best interest of the country's national sovereignty. This book explores the personalities of the chief executives and selected diplomats to illustrate how both personnel and personalities molded their nation’s foreign relations. In the end, while perceived as two very different individuals who pursued different paths during the global conflict, the leadership styles of President Woodrow Wilson and General Juan Vicente Gómez were more alike than they realized. The overall cordial relations between the two nations during the period under review helped establish the foundation for the petroleum bonanza that United States companies would enjoy in the following years.
The Paradox of Plenty
Author: Terry Lynn KarlPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520918696
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
The Paradox of Plenty explains why, in the midst of two massive oil booms in the 1970s, oil-exporting governments as different as Venezuela, Iran, Nigeria, Algeria, and Indonesia chose common development paths and suffered similarly disappointing outcomes. Meticulously documented and theoretically innovative, this book illuminates the manifold factors—economic, political, and social—that determine the nature of the oil state, from the coherence of public bureaucracies, to the degree of centralization, to patterns of policy-making. Karl contends that oil countries, while seemingly disparate, are characterized by similar social classes and patterns of collective action. In these countries, dependence on petroleum leads to disproportionate fiscal reliance on petrodollars and public spending, at the expense of statecraft. Oil booms, which create the illusion of prosperity and development, actually destabilize regimes by reinforcing oil-based interests and further weakening state capacity. Karl's incisive investigation unites structural and choice-based approaches by illuminating how decisions of policymakers are embedded in institutions interacting with domestic and international markets. This approach—which Karl dubs "structured contingency"—uses a state's leading sector as the starting point for identifying a range of decision-making choices, and ends by examining the dynamics of the state itself.
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