Challenges of the Caspian Resource Boom: Domestic Elites and Policy-Making (2012)Hardcover - 2012, 30 August 2012

A re-conceptualisation of the widely-held concept of the 'resource curse', which contends that resource booms inevitably lead to numerous political, social and economic problems. This book counters that these problems are by no means inevitable, but are rather the direct result of specific policy choices made by actors within particular regimes.