Language:
English
Series Statement:
GIGA Working Papers 133
Keywords:
Russland Kasachstan
;
Iran
;
Aserbaidschan
;
Turkmenistan
;
Ressource
;
Demokratie
;
Wirtschaftliche Bedingungen
;
Politik
;
Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt
;
Kaspisches Meer
Abstract:
Although much attention is paid to the Caspian region with regard to energy issues, the domestic consequences of the region`s resource production have so far constituted a neglected field of research. A systematic survey of the latest research trends in the economic and political causalities of the resource curse and of rentier states reveals that there is a need for context analysis. In reference to this, the paper traces any shortcomings and promising approaches in the existent body of literature on the Caspian region. Following on from this, the paper then proposes a new approach; specifically, one in which any differences and similarities in the context conditions are captured. This enables a more precise exploration of the exact ways in which they form contemporary post-Soviet Caspian rentier states.
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