This thesis centres on studying intricate bargaining relationships between the major actors
in the highly politicised oil industry. By covering the period between 1998 and early 2007,
this study focuses exclusively on contemporary bargaining in the oil industry, as it is
unfeasible to cover a longer time-span. In the current decade, which unlike previous two
cooperative decades, can be characterised as conflictual, and thus politicised, the structure
of the oil industry can best be understood by studying bargaining between numerous
actors, the main of which are the international oil companies (IOCs), oil-exporting states,
oil-importing states, and the national oil companies (NOCs). The central argument is that due to their weak relative bargaining power, the IOCs have been on the losing side in their bargaining with oil exporting countries and/or their NOCs in the current decade when compared to the late 1990s, and thus, we are witnessing the
return of the obsolescing bargain.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ADTP/216447 |
| Date | January 2008 |
| Creators | Vivoda, Vlado, vlado.vivoda@flinders.edu.au |
| Publisher | Flinders University. School of Politics and International Studies |
| Source Sets | Australiasian Digital Theses Program |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Rights | http://www.flinders.edu.au/disclaimer/), Copyright Vlado Vivoda |
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