Will There Be Blood?
What the Arab States Might Look Like If No One Needed Their Oil
The more oil that countries in the Middle East have, the more effectively their governments have crushed democratic movements. In advance of “Will Oil Drown the Arab Spring?” , a Zócalo event about the connection between oil and repression, we asked leading thinkers on the region to consider what might change in the absence of oil revenues. What would oil-rich Arab states look like if no one needed their oil?
States with mid-level production are vulnerable
The relationship between political turmoil in the Arab world and hydrocarbon wealth has traced an …
