Andreas R.D. Sanders is a postdoctoral researcher at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, with a PhD from the European University Institute in Florence. His research focuses on resource nationalism in Sweden and Norway in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He has published a number of articles and chapters on natural resource regulations and business-government relations.

Pål Thonstad Stadnik is a professor of economic history at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He has published widely in economic history on topics such as state regulation of the economy, the relationship between multinationals and small states, and the development of resource-based industries. He is currently leading a research project on the political regulation of natural resources. His most recent book is an economic history of Norway.

Espen Storli is a professor of history at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He was a Harvard-Newcomen Fellow in Business History at Harvard Business School. He has published widely in the field of international business history on government-business relations, international cartels, and the development of extractive industries. His publications include two edited volumes on the global history of the tin and bauxite industries. He is currently leading a research project on the development of global commodity traders after 1945.

Introduction: Natural Resource Regulations and the Global Economy / Andreas R.D. Sanders, Pål T. Sandvik, and Espen Storli

Part 1: Evolution of the Domestic Regulation of Natural Resources

1 The Australian Gold Rushes, 1850-1900: Elites, Mineral Ownership, and Democracy / Zdravka Brunkova and Martin Shanahan

2 Regulation of Natural Resources in the Nordic Countries, 1880-1940 / Andreas R.D. Sanders, Pål T. Sandvik, and Espen Storli

3 Regulating Natural Resources in Canada: A Brief Historical Survey / Robin S. Gendron and Andreas R.D. Sanders

4 National Oil Companies and Political Coalitions: Venezuela and Colombia, 1910-76 / Marcelo Bucheli

5 Managing Russia's Resource Wealth: Coalitions and Capacity / Stephen Fortescue

6 Regulatory Regimes for Petroleum Production in Brazil / Gail D. Triner

Part 2: Impact of Imperialism on Resource Policy

7 Regulating Oil Concessions in British West Africa: The Case of Nigeria and the Gold Coast during the Colonial Period / Jon Olav Hove and John Kwadwo Osei-Tutu

8 Regulating Oil in Iran and India: The Anglo-Iranian Oil Company and Burmah Oil, 1886-1953 / Neveen Abdelrehim and Shraddha Verma

9 "In the National Interest": Regulating New Caledonia's Mining Industry in the Late Twentieth Century / Robin S. Gendron

Part 3: Growing Internationalization of Resource Policy

10 Regulating the Regulators: The League of Nations and the Problem of Raw Materials / Mats Ingulstad

11 Regulating the Natural Resources in the Antarctic Region: A Historical Review / Bjørn L. Basberg

12 The Rights of Indigenous Peoples to Land and Natural Resources: The Sami in Norway / Hanne Hagtvedt Vik

13 "Europe Cannot Engage in Autarchical Policies": European Raw Materials Strategy from 1945 to the Present / Hans Otto Frøland and Mats Ingulstad

14 Mitigating Import Dependency: Japan's Energy and Mining Policies / Takeo Kikkawa

Conclusion / Andreas R.D. Sanders, Pål T. Sandvik, and Espen Storli

Contributors; Index