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1 The Challenges of Resource Curses and Globalization 1
Volatilities: Financial, Economic, and Geopolitical 10
Petro-States, Hydrocarbon Dependence, and Resource Curses 14
Geopolitical Conflicts and the Politics of Discontent 16
Mounting Debt and Fragility of the Global Financial System 18
Constants and Variables in the Cycle: 1970s to the Present 19
2 New Middle East: Childhood 1973-84 and Adolescence 1985-95 25
OPEC's Market Power: Economics, Politics, and Volatility 26
Middle-East Flows of Labor, Capital, and Cultural Norms 31
Oil Price Collapse and the Politics of Discontent 33
The Rise of National Oil Companies 40
Militarism, Debts, and Global Finance 44
3 Road to the Status Quo: 1996-2008 51
Changing OPEC Politics and Renewed Oil Revenues 52
The Other Black Gold: Natural Gas 60
The Economics and Geopolitics of Middle-East Discontent 65
Deja Vu: Overgrown Children of the 1970s? 71
4 Globalization of Middle-East Dynamics 75
Hedge Funds and Sovereign Wealth Funds 76
Increased Financial Integration and Contagion 80
Liquefied Natural Gas and Globalized Energy Markets 85
Conflicts, Economic Sanctions, and the "War on Terror" 90
5 Dollars and Debt: The End of the Dollar Era? 97
The Dollar as Reserve Currency 97
Bretton Woods and Beyond: The Primacy of U.S. Debt 99
Global Economic Growth, Interest Rates, and Debt 101
Uneasy Symbiosis: U.S. Consumers and Asian Savers 103
Contagion: Sequential Bubbles and Crashes 107
The Dollar and Bets on Chinese Growth and Oil 110
6 Motivations to Attack or Abandon the Dollar 117
Americas "Exorbitant Privilege" andGeopolitics 119
Petrodollar Recycling and the Dollar-Pricing of Oil 121
Saddam Hussein, Ahmadinejad, and Dreams of Petroeuros 122
The Paradox of Pegged Currencies 125
Pegged Currencies and "The Balance of Financial Terror" 130
The Threat of Renewed Protectionism and Mercantilism 134
Globalization with Multiple Currencies: Bretton-Woods III? 139
7 Resource Curses, Global Volatility, and Crises 143
Continued Regional and Global Resource Curses 144
The Global Resource Curse 147
Continued Global Dependence on Oil 150
Global Conflicts, Radicalisms, and Terrorism 159
Serial Amnesia, Greed, and Financial Crises 164
Peaks and Troughs: The Need to Ameliorate the Cycle 167
8 Ameliorating the Cycle 171
Technical Solutions and International Cooperation 175
Attenuating the Energy-Markets Cycle 177
Energy Market Regulation and Multilateral Intervention 181
Petrodollar Recycling and International Lender of Last Resort 184
Managing Geopolitical Conflicts 188
Conclusion 191
Notes 193
Bibliography 210
Index 216
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