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20 J. Conflict Resol. 3 (1976)

handle is hein.journals/jcfltr20 and id is 1 raw text is: Theory, Policy, and Resource Cartels THE CASE OF OPEC DAVIS B. BOBROW Department of Government and Politics University of Maryland ROBERT T. KUDRLE School of Public Affairs and Center of International Studies University of Minnesota Our choice of theoretical perspectives to apply to resource cartels seriously affects the questions we ask, the predictions we make, and the policy suggestions we draw. In this paper we examine the implications (and the limitations) of five perspectives for the analysis of resource cartels in general and the Organization of Petroleum- Exporting Countries (OPEC) in particular: the theory of cartels; the theory of depletable resources; coalition theory; internal politics approaches; and the theory of collective action. Three classes of actors are considered-exporting producers, importing cofisumers, and multinational resource exploitation firms. We gain in realism by proceeding from simple to more complicated situations by including political concerns, bureaucratic divisions, and the prospect of military coercion. Yet, we do so at the price of rigorous deductive frameworks with clear and coherent predictions. Our purpose here is to explore the predictive and prescriptive implications of some major social science perspectives for the international policy problems posed by resource cartels. It is not to provide detailed analysis of any particular cartel, although we will use the Organization of Petroleum-Exporting Countries (OPEC) for illustrative purposes. AUTHORS' NOTE: An earlier version of this paper was presented at the 1974 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, August 29-September 2, 1974. We have benefited greatly from the suggestions and criticisms of Mitchell Joelson, Mancur Olson, and the anonymous reviewers of this Journal. JOURNAL OF CONFLICT RESOLUTION, Vol. 20 No. 1, March 1976 ( 1976 Sage Publications, Inc. 1 3]

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