CEU eTD Collection (2007); Onuoha, Godwin Ndubuisi: The Role of States in Industrial Development: A Comparison of the Oil Industry in Nigeria and Brazil

CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2007
Author Onuoha, Godwin Ndubuisi
Title The Role of States in Industrial Development: A Comparison of the Oil Industry in Nigeria and Brazil
Summary This research interrogates the capacity of states to foster indigenous development in the contemporary global economy. It does this within the context of contemporary developments in the global oil and gas industry. As the linchpin of the modern capitalist system, oil exploration and production produces enormous challenges to developing countries of the world. These challenges impact on oil and gas exploration and production through the deepening and broadening of international trade, transnational investment, deregulation of domestic markets, and industrial restructuring. By focusing on two regional powers with vast oil and gas resources, this study weaves a connection between the oil and gas industry, the dominant social forces within these states and state capacity. It argues that the differences, variations and divergent trajectories in state capacity between Brazil and Nigeria are socially constructed, and the oil and gas industry provides a context within which these tendencies are played out. The crucial nature of the industry to the global economy necessitates an interaction with oil-rich countries; this study locates the character and nature of these interactions within the context of local and global structures in a specific historical context.
Supervisor Professor Bela Greskovits
Department Political Science MA
Full texthttps://www.etd.ceu.edu/2007/onuoha_godwin.pdf

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