I: Economics and infrastructures of energy exporters -- The natural resource curse: a survey / Jeffrey Frankel -- Sometimes the grass is indeed greener: the successful use of energy revenues / Patrick Clawson -- Is there a policy learning curve? Trinidad and Tobago and the 2004-8 hydrocarbon boom / Richard M. Auty -- The illusion of unlimited supply: Iran and energy subsidies / Ahmad Mojtahed -- Challenges facing central banks on oil-exporting countries: the case of Azerbaijan / Elkin Nurmammadov -- Power to the producers: the challenges of electricity provision in major energy-exporting states / Theresa Sabonis-Helf -- II: Energy exports, society, and politics -- The impact of energy resources on nation- and state-building: the contrasting cases of Azerbaijan and Georgia / Murad Ismayilov -- Education reform in energy-exporting states: the post-Soviet experience in comparative perspective / Regine A. Spector -- Is Norway really Norway? / Ole Andreas Engen, Oluf Langhelle, and Reidar Bratvold -- III: Energy exporters in the International Political System -- Energy exporters and the International Energy Agency / Richard Jones -- Resource nationalism and oil development: profit or peril? / Amy M. Jaffe -- Natural resources, domestic instability, and international conflicts / Elnur Soltanov -- Petroleum, governance, and fragility: the micro-politics of petroleum in postconflict states / Naazneen H. Barma -- Conclusion: Constant perils, policy responses, and lessons to be learned / Taleh Ziyadov.

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