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The Effect Of The Oil Trade Network On Political Stability, Jungmoo Woo
The Effect Of The Oil Trade Network On Political Stability, Jungmoo Woo
Theses and Dissertations--Political Science
My dissertation focuses on the impact of oil trade ties and network on political instability: democratization, civil war onset, and coups. Oil is an important resource to most states, while a few states, especially autocratic states, can produce and export it. This implies that the break of oil trade ties may strategically or economically damage oil-importing states more than oil-exporting states. In the three essays of my dissertation, I argue that oil trade ties allow oil-exporting states to resist to external pressures and encourage oil-importing states to support important oil exporters in order to avoid losing access to a much-needed …