Dec 15, 2025  
2021-2022 Undergraduate Bulletin 
    
2021-2022 Undergraduate Bulletin [ARCHIVED BULLETIN]

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POL 4083 The Politics of Natural Resource Wealth

International Studies
(3 hours)
A “resource curse” arguably plagues countries with abundant natural resource wealth. These negative consequences include low levels of economic development; feeble institutional structures; authoritarian regimes; and political instability and civil war. This course seeks to understand if a resource curse indeed exists.



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