The Petroleum Industry and Socio-political Change in Mauritania: 2001-2011

The thesis focuses on the interaction of the nascent oil industry and the changing political character of Mauritanian between 2001 and 2011. The theoretical starting point is the hypothesis of the ‘oil curse’. Historically-rooted contextual causes, such as the relationship between state and long-sta...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: de Vietri, Max
Format: Thesis
Published: Curtin University 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/76950