Reluctant

Foreign Policy

Volumn , Issue 125, 2001, Pages 44-54

  Ottaway, Marina ^a  

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EID: 0040481511     PISSN: 00157228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3183326     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. Scholarship on colonial charter companies has largely focused on Britain's East India Company (EIC). Two books that stand out include Antony Wild's The East India Company: Trade and Conquest from 1600 (London: HarperCollins, 1999) and John Keay's The Honourable Company: A History of the English East India Company (New York: Macmillan, 1994).
2. Scholarship on colonial charter companies has largely focused on Britain's East India Company (EIC). Two books that stand out include Antony Wild's The East India Company: Trade and Conquest from 1600 (London: HarperCollins, 1999) and John Keay's The Honourable Company: A History of the English East India Company (New York: Macmillan, 1994).
3. An intriguing modern British company claims to be the reborn East India Company. Its Web site contains a brief history of the EIC and links to assorted resources. The impeachment of the first governor general of India, Warren Hastings, has been immortalized in Edmund Burke's speeches, which can be found excerpted in The Portable Edmund Burke (New York: Penguin, 1999). His speeches are notable not only for their attacks on the corruption and rapaciousness of Hastings and the EIC but also for Burke's emphasis on universal, transnational justice.
4. NGOs have written numerous exposés on oil companies in developing countries. See The Price of Oil: Corporate Responsibility and Human Rights Violations in Nigeria's Oil Producing Communities (New York: Human Rights Watch, 1999) and A Crude Awakening: The Role of the Oil and Banking Industries in Angola's Civil War and the Plunder of State Assets (London: Global Witness, 1999).
5. NGOs have written numerous exposés on oil companies in developing countries. See The Price of Oil: Corporate Responsibility and Human Rights Violations in Nigeria's Oil Producing Communities (New York: Human Rights Watch, 1999) and A Crude Awakening: The Role of the Oil and Banking Industries in Angola's Civil War and the Plunder of State Assets (London: Global Witness, 1999).
6. There has been no shortage of recommendations, either. A coalition of NGOs advanced a platform calling for the phasing out of oil production altogether. Less radically, the Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum called for greater consideration for human rights and the political environment in their reports, Human Rights: Is It Any of Your Business?, in collaboration with Amnesty International, and The Business of Peace: The private sector as a partner in conflict prevention and resolution. The U.S. and U.K. governments crafted "Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights," which a number of oil companies have signed, and which can be found on the U.S. State Department Web site.
7. Trying to show that it complies with the agreement reached with the Canadian government, Talisman Energy Inc. has published extensive guidelines of its own, Corporate Social Responsibility Report 2000-Sudan Operations.
8. The political economy of oil has become a popular subject. Terry Lynn Karl's The Paradox of Plenty: Oil Booms and Petro-States (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997) presents a comprehensive study. The Journal of International Affairs devoted its Fall 1999 issue to the political economy of energy and contains a variety of useful articles. For an analysis of how oil resources can stymie economic growth, see Jeffrey Sachs and Andrew Warner's "Natural Resource Abundance and Economic Growth" (Development Discussion Paper 517a, Cambridge: Harvard Institute for International Development, 1995) and Terry Lynn Karl's "The Perils of the Petro-State: Reflections on the Paradox of Plenty" (Journal of International Affairs, Fall, 1999).
9. The political economy of oil has become a popular subject. Terry Lynn Karl's The Paradox of Plenty: Oil Booms and Petro-States (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997) presents a comprehensive study. The Journal of International Affairs devoted its Fall 1999 issue to the political economy of energy and contains a variety of useful articles. For an analysis of how oil resources can stymie economic growth, see Jeffrey Sachs and Andrew Warner's "Natural Resource Abundance and Economic Growth" (Development Discussion Paper 517a, Cambridge: Harvard Institute for International Development, 1995) and Terry Lynn Karl's "The Perils of the Petro-State: Reflections on the Paradox of Plenty" (Journal of International Affairs, Fall, 1999).
10. The political economy of oil has become a popular subject. Terry Lynn Karl's The Paradox of Plenty: Oil Booms and Petro-States (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997) presents a comprehensive study. The Journal of International Affairs devoted its Fall 1999 issue to the political economy of energy and contains a variety of useful articles. For an analysis of how oil resources can stymie economic growth, see Jeffrey Sachs and Andrew Warner's "Natural Resource Abundance and Economic Growth" (Development Discussion Paper 517a, Cambridge: Harvard Institute for International Development, 1995) and Terry Lynn Karl's "The Perils of the Petro-State: Reflections on the Paradox of Plenty" (Journal of International Affairs, Fall, 1999).