The Strait of Hormuz and the Geography of Energy Security
A narrow waterway carries a fifth of the world’s oil. Why the threat to close it has been made so often — and carried out so rarely.
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Oil, Rent and Authority: Revisiting Rentier State Theory in the Gulf
For half a century, the idea of the ‘rentier state’ has explained why oil wealth sustains authoritarian rule. How well does it still hold as Gulf governments tax, diversify and reinvent the social contract?