The Petro-State Masquerade: Oil, Sovereignty, and Power

The Rifkind Center at The City College of New York

In the long oil century, the confluence of fossil fuels and sovereign authority gave rise to a new political form: the petro-state.

The City College of New York, Convent Avenue, New York, NY, USA

<p>Join us for a book talk where Prof. Ryan Cecil Jobson revisits this equation of fossil fuels and political power through one of the oldest and least talked about theaters of petrocapitalism: the twin-island Caribbean republic of Trinidad and Tobago.</p>

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