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Oil Wars 石油战争
Authors: Mary Kaldor, Terry Karl, Yahia Said
Page Count: 304 pages
Publisher: Pluto Press (April 30, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0745324789
ISBN-13: 978-0745324784
Format: PDF | 1.1MB

That was the origin of this book. It was a time when BP was coming under public criticism for its behaviour in Colombia, as were Shell in the Niger Delta and Exxon in Aceh. As one of the oil executives we interviewed explained, oil companies are increasingly exploring oilfields in unstable parts of the world; they are facing what he described as the ‘social equivalent of deep sea drilling’. I and my colleague Yahia Said decided that, as social scientists, it is our task to investigate and analyse the ‘social quivalent of deep sea drilling’ and to work out what it might mean to be genuinely a ‘human rights company’.


Our idea was to combine my work on ‘new wars’ with the work of those scholars who had developed the concept of a petro-state, and therefore we approached Terry Karl and asked her to join our team. To ensure objectivity, we sought independent funding. The Ford Foundation provided an initial grant for the research. We also received a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, which enabled us to hold a meeting at Bellagio, the Italian villa owned by the Foundation, where we presented our case studies to oil industry executives. Many of the policy recommendations in the conclusion result from that meeting.


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