Russia’s Addiction: The Political Economy of Resource Dependence

This is the title of my forthcoming book with Clifford Gaddy, Brookings Press, 2008. On this webpage I post materials relevant to the chapters in the forthcoming book. Draft chapters will be posted when ready.

· This is our first paper on resource rents, Resource Rents and the Russian Economy. It is published in Eurasian Geography and Economics, 2005.

· Here is a presentation I gave on “Energy Security and Cooperation: Implications for Russia and Europe” at the Transatlantic Colloquium, “Europe, Russia, US Relations,”, Konrad Adenauer Foundation, September 8, 2007.

· Here is a paper on Energy Interdependence and Security: Russia and Europe.

· Here is an incomplete draft of a paper on Addiction and Withdrawal: Resource Rents and the Collapse of the Soviet Economy.

· Here is a pdf of the presentation I gave of the Addiction paper at the ACES meetings, January 2007.

· Here is a pdf of a presentation I made on Putin, Coase, and Khodorkovsky, at UC Berkeley, October 2007.

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