Résumé
Bernard Mommer concentrates on the relationship between transnational capital and the extraction of natural resources. Capital from its beginning has sought to deny the right of petroleum exporting countries to capture an international ground rent. Its objectives today include imposing on consumers the costs of world-wide policies related to the protection of the environment.
As part of the process of globalization, transnational capital is imposing over sovereign national rights a private international structure of arbitration. The author focuses on the example of petroleum, given that it is by far the most important one, and of Venezuela, the most important petroleum exporting country during the 20th century. He also analyzes the impact of this development to the European Union and the Energy Charter Treaty, to Russia, to Germany, and to the ongoing negotiations between the European Union and Canada.
One benefits from this book to the extent that reading it renews the desire to make an effective contribution to improving the legacy that the generation which we belong to intends to leave to subsequent ones (Arturo Sosa A., prologue).
Auteur
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Bernard Mommer was born in 1943 in the south of France, to a Belgian mother and a German father, refugees from German fascism at the time. He holds a Degree in Mathematics (1967) and a Doctorate in Social Sciences (1976) from the University of Tübingen (Germany).Since 1970, his academic endeavours have focused on the political economy of oil, as reflected in a long list of publications on the subject, beginning with the book Die Ölfrage (1983), and culminating with Recursos Naturales y Globalización: Petróleo y Venezuela como ejemplos (2nd ed. 2023). In 1987 Mommer became a Venezuelan national. From 2005 to 2008 he was Vice Minister of Hydrocarbons of Venezuela and, from 2008 to 2015, Governor of Venezuela before OPEC in Vienna.
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Bernard Mommer was born in 1943 in the south of France, to a Belgian mother and a German father, refugees from German fascism at the time. He holds a Degree in Mathematics (1967) and a Doctorate in Social Sciences (1976) from the University of Tübingen (Germany).Since 1970, his academic endeavours have focused on the political economy of oil, as reflected in a long list of publications on the subject, beginning with the book Die Ölfrage (1983), and culminating with Recursos Naturales y Globalización: Petróleo y Venezuela como ejemplos (2nd ed. 2023). In 1987 Mommer became a Venezuelan national. From 2005 to 2008 he was Vice Minister of Hydrocarbons of Venezuela and, from 2008 to 2015, Governor of Venezuela before OPEC in Vienna.
Auteur(s) : Bernard Mommer
Caractéristiques
Editeur : Editions L'Harmattan
Auteur(s) : Bernard Mommer
Publication : 23 janvier 2025
Support(s) : Livre numérique eBook [PDF]
Protection(s) : Marquage social (PDF)
Taille(s) : 3,26 Mo (PDF)
EAN13 Livre numérique eBook [PDF] : 9782336497037
EAN13 (papier) : 9782336497020
