Destabilizing Wealth.(petro-staes particularly vulnerable to political and economic internal...

Dependence on petroleum revenues leaves petro-states vulnerable to strife.

Some analysts believe that the high dependence on petroleum revenues in the petro-states - Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the UAE, Algeria, Libya, Venezuela, and Nigeria - has caused them to experience a distorted form of political and economic development that, in turn, makes them especially vulnerable to the possibility of future internal strife.

This is especially true if the process of modern political and economic development in a specific country did not begin until the simu