Gain Seeking in a "Double Security Dilemma": The Case of OPEC
Author(s): Ellinor Zeino-MahmalatPublisher(s): German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Hamburg, Germany
Date of publication: Mar 2008
Issue number: 71
Format: PDF
Pages: 31
URL: www.giga-hamburg.de
Series: GIGA Working Papers
Description: This paper examines variations in gain-seeking behavior of OPEC members. According to the author, the OPEC countries face a double security dilemma of domestic and external security threats. The author develops a theoretical approach which accounts for absolute and relative gains from oil revenue to explain the countries’ behavior. Applying this "gain-seeking mentalities"-approach to Iraq and Iran during the Iran-Iraq War and to Iraq during the first Gulf War shows the extent to which both countries altered their gain-seeking behavior as a result of a changing constellation of threats.
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