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Small but sharp. Two books cover most of what an investor needs: how the Caspian oil concessions were won, and how the resulting money leaves the region through offshore structures.
9 books
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- The Oil and the GlorySteve LeVine, 2007
- KleptopiaTom Burgis, 2020
- Dictators Without Borders: Power and Money in Central AsiaAlexander Cooley, John Heathershaw, 2017
Books 9
Steve LeVine · 2007 · The Caspian concession scramble; the definitive account of how those deals were done.
Alexander Cooley, John Heathershaw · 2017 · The offshore plumbing: shell companies, enablers and where Central Asian rents actually sit.
T2 Kleptopia
Tom Burgis · 2020 · How Kazakh mining money moved through London banks and offshore structures.
Martha Brill Olcott · 2002 · The early oil-boom politics that set the region's investment terms.
Craig Murray · 2006 · Insider account by the UK ambassador to Uzbekistan on cotton and coercion.
Alexander Cooley · 2012 · How Central Asian states play outside powers off against each other.
Philip Shishkin · 2013 · Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan: revolution, asset seizure and the Bakiyev family businesses.
Joanna Lillis · 2019 · Ground-level reporting on the region's largest economy.
Richard Pomfret · 2019 · The standard economic survey: resource rents, transit corridors, reform records.