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Oil and Empire

Iran, Nigeria, and the Battle for Oil

5.02 reviewsKindle · PaperbackJun 2025£7.38

Iran, Nigeria, and the geopolitical battle for oil: how resource wealth becomes power, pressure, and vulnerability.

GeopoliticsEconomicsResource politics

This book compares oil politics through Iran and Nigeria, asking how resource wealth can become both an asset and a burden. It is aimed at readers interested in empire, energy, sovereignty, and the politics of extraction.

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Oil and Empire is tagged with: Geopolitics, Economics, Resource politics.
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