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An eye-opening survey of how extractive industries power globalizationand how to fight back, by one of the world's leading experts on the oil industry and Middle Eastern politics
A succinct survey of how oil is pumped, refined, traded and used, as well as a witty and always engaging look at the shady worlds of corporate cronyism, management consultancy and the legal grey zones of offshore tax havens and shell companies. Understand why the world is still run by oil, and how the balance of global power is shifting-and will continue to shift as the climate crisis ramps up, as the US and China rattle sabres in a new Cold War era, and as pirates and proxies once again begin to target shipping in the Red Sea in the wake of the Israel-Hamas conflict. Fascinating, entertaining, and a must-have for anyone interested in international relations and the global marketplace.
Whether it's pumping oil, mining resources or shipping commodities across oceans, the global economy runs on extraction. Promises of frictionless trade and lucrative speculation are the hallmarks of our era, but the backbone of globalization is still low-cost labor and rapacious corporate control. Extractive capitalism is what made-and is still making-our unequal world. Laleh Khalili reflects on the hidden stories behind late capitalism, from seafarers abandoned on debt-ridden container ships to the nefarious reach of consultancy firms and the cronyism that drives record-breaking profits. Extractive Capitalism reveals the dark truths behind the world's most crucial industries. Laleh Khalili teaches at the University of Exeter. Her books include Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula, Heroes and Martyrs of Palestine: The Politics of National Commemoration and The Corporeal Life of Seafaring.
An Iranian American, she received a BS in chemical engineering from the University of Texas and a PhD in political science from Columbia University. She was previously a Professor of Middle Eastern Politics at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London and a Professor of International Politics at Queen Mary University, London. An internationally-renowned expert on the oil industry, global trade and geopolitics in the Gulf region with over 43,000 Twitter followers, Professor Khalili has worked as a consultant and an engineer and has written widely on globalization, capital and neocolonialism. She has written for the Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Tribune, Financial Times and Agence France-Presse and contributes regularly to London Review of Books.
A succinct survey of how oil is pumped, refined, traded and used, as well as a witty and always engaging look at the shady worlds of corporate cronyism, management consultancy and the legal grey zones of offshore tax havens and shell companies. Understand why the world is still run by oil, and how the balance of global power is shifting-and will continue to shift as the climate crisis ramps up, as the US and China rattle sabres in a new Cold War era, and as pirates and proxies once again begin to target shipping in the Red Sea in the wake of the Israel-Hamas conflict. Fascinating, entertaining, and a must-have for anyone interested in international relations and the global marketplace.
Whether it's pumping oil, mining resources or shipping commodities across oceans, the global economy runs on extraction. Promises of frictionless trade and lucrative speculation are the hallmarks of our era, but the backbone of globalization is still low-cost labor and rapacious corporate control. Extractive capitalism is what made-and is still making-our unequal world. Laleh Khalili reflects on the hidden stories behind late capitalism, from seafarers abandoned on debt-ridden container ships to the nefarious reach of consultancy firms and the cronyism that drives record-breaking profits. Extractive Capitalism reveals the dark truths behind the world's most crucial industries. Laleh Khalili teaches at the University of Exeter. Her books include Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula, Heroes and Martyrs of Palestine: The Politics of National Commemoration and The Corporeal Life of Seafaring.
An Iranian American, she received a BS in chemical engineering from the University of Texas and a PhD in political science from Columbia University. She was previously a Professor of Middle Eastern Politics at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London and a Professor of International Politics at Queen Mary University, London. An internationally-renowned expert on the oil industry, global trade and geopolitics in the Gulf region with over 43,000 Twitter followers, Professor Khalili has worked as a consultant and an engineer and has written widely on globalization, capital and neocolonialism. She has written for the Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Tribune, Financial Times and Agence France-Presse and contributes regularly to London Review of Books.