Commentary
Confronting Our Common Enemy
With Emilie Hafner-Burton, Matto Mildenberger , and Christina Schneider
Journal of Democracy, January 1, 2025
As oil prices plummet, how can resource-rich countries diversify their economies?
With Addisu Lashitew and Eric Werker
Brookings Institution, April 3, 2020
Americans weaned themselves off oil in the 1970s crisis. We can do it again
The Guardian, December 11, 2015
How oil wealth can make Russia and other countries less cooperative
With Erik Voeten
Washington Post, The Monkey Cage, April 30, 2014
How the 1973 Oil Embargo Saved the Planet
Foreign Affairs, October 2013
Resource Wealth and Violent Conflict
The Environmental Forum, September/October 2013
Putin Victory Shows How Oil Supports Autocrats
Bloomberg News, May 6, 2012
Will Oil Drown the Arab Spring?
Foreign Affairs, September/October 2011;
Reprinted in Harper's, November 2011
From Land Mines to Copper Mines
ForeignPolicy.com, June 15, 2010
Blood Barrels: How Oil Wealth Fuels Conflict
Foreign Affairs, May/June 2008
Myanmar, the Latest Petro-Bully
Los Angeles Times (Op-Ed), October 26, 2007
Nigeria's Oil Sector and the Poor
Report for the UK Department for International Development, May 2003
Extractive Sectors and the Poor
Oxfam America, October 2001
Testing Inductively-Generated Hypotheses with Independent Data Sets
Comparative Politics Newsletter, Winter 2003
