Natural resources and globalisation: oil and Venezuela

This book analyses the process of globalisation of capitalism in its historical relationship with natural resources. Today, international capital is imposing itself on national sovereign rights through a structure of international arbitration. The author uses the example of oil, given its extraordinary importance, and Venezuela, an oil-exporting country par excellence, to illustrate this process. The examples of the European Union and the Energy Charter Treaty, Russia, Germany and the current negotiations between Canada and the European Union are also presented.