Webinar to debate wealth and conflicts in petrofederations

Fundação Getulio Vargas’ Sao Paulo School of Business Administration (FGV EAESP) is holding a webinar to debate the book “Oil Wealth and Federal Conflict in American Petrofederations,” edited by Beni Trojbicz and published by Elsevier in 2022. This public event will be livestreamed on FGV’s YouTube channel on June 16, at 2 pm.

The book documents the critical relationship between oil income and federal conflicts, illustrated with six representative cross-regional case studies. Each case study encompasses qualitative, quantitative and comparative elements under a common framework. With each petrofederation varying in types and modalities of conflict, the work as a whole identifies the main differences, including the decentralization of oil income, in terms of resource ownership, sector management and revenue distribution; sectoral importance, considered at national and subnational levels; and each federation’s redistribution policy, in terms of federal fiscal imbalances, fiscal equalization, and use of oil income for regional equity.

Collectively, it advances toward a theory of causality between oil income and federal conflicts, taking systemic variables into account. Its conclusions serve as a guide for researchers and policymakers looking for ways to translate oil income into development and stability.

The authors of the chapters on Argentina, Brazil and Canada will participate in the webinar, as well as the book’s editor. During the event, these panelists will discuss the book’s main ideas and their implications, providing a valuable opportunity to delve into this timely and important topic.

The event will be moderated by Beni Trojbicz, a professor on the Humanities Undergraduate Program at Jequitinhonha and Mucuri Valleys Federal University; and Elize Massard da Fonseca, a professor at FGV EAESP.

The speakers will be Fernanda Delgado, executive director of the Brazilian Oil and Gas Institute; Carlos Gervasoni, director of the Department of Political Science and International Studies at Torcuato Di Tella University, Argentina; and Daniel Béland, a professor in the Department of Political Science at McGill University.

To take part, please sign up here.