... Court Human Rights UN UNASUR petroleum CNE Universal NTN24 49 Perhaps Maduro s biggest deficit is his personal lack of charisma in a govern- ment designed by, institutionalized around, and requiring a charismatic figure. The End of Chavismo? DAVID SMILDE Reliable polling at the end of 2014...

... focused on Mexico s fiscal accounts. This legislation reduced royalty payments by Mexico s cash-starved nation- al petroleum company, Pemex; it made an attempt to tax Mexico s informal sector; and it created an alternative minimum business tax called the Entrepreneurial Single Rate Tax. These changes only...

... of California Nigeria Umaru Yar'Adua People's Democratic Party Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab Goodluck Jonathan Federal Executive Council Olusegun Obasanjo Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Excess Crude Account 179 Nothing, wrote Reuben Abati, the editor...

... al-Assad Hafez al-Assad reform internet unemployment petroleum state media Damascus Spring Barack Obama 417 Assad planned when he took office to slowly implement economic reforms and eventually allow greater political freedom. That project has failed on both counts. Syria: The Change...

... Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Revolutionary Guards Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Nabucco pipeline Mohammad Khatami petroleum Basij unemployment Muhammad Ali Jafari 424 A dramatic shift of economic power has taken place away from traditional pri- vate sector groupings and toward select...

... involved in the quiet struggle now unfolding in Northeast Asia over seabed petroleum resources, especially the conflict between China and Japan over the East China Sea. © 2002 Current History. All rights reserved. 2002 The Regents of the University of California With its energy needs steadily growing...

... markets in 1999 and especially 2000 likely reflect the effects of ignoring some of these challenges. © 2002 Current History. All rights reserved. 2002 The Regents of the University of California coal deregulation electricity energy FERC Gulf War natural gas petroleum pipeline United...

...Michael T. Klare The United States cannot increase its intake of foreign oil by 50 percent, as called for under the Bush energy plan, without involving itself in the political, economic, and military affairs of the states from which all this petroleum is expected to flow. This involvement may take...