Antulio Rosales
Postdoctoral Fellow - Centre for Development and Environment
Email antulio.rosales@sum.uio.no
Visiting address Sandakerveien 130 Bygg 2 0484 OSLO
Postal address Postboks 1116 Blindern 0317 OSLO
Antulio's work relates to the political economy of resource extraction. His research interests centre on the changing modalities of state treatment of foreign investment in resource industries, considering the emergence of new actors and trends in the global economy. Focusing on the critical case of Venezuela, Antulio's post-doctoral project at SUM deals with the dramatic expansion of Venezuela's extractive frontier through large-scale mining south of the Orinoco river. This case allows conceptualizing the interplay of indigenous demands, foreign investors' interests and state policy in the midst of the downturn in commodity markets and a deep economic crisis.
PSCI-300 Foundations of Political Economy (University of Waterloo, 2014-2015).
IP 612 Earth Governance: The politics and law of environmental policy (Wilfrid Laurier University 2017)
Antulio holds a PhD in Global Governance from the University of Waterloo and the Balsillie School of International Affairs. His PhD thesis centred on the historical evolution of state treatment of Foreign Investment in the oil sector of Venezuela and Ecuador, integrating insights from Obsolescing Bargaining Models (OBM) and constructivist literature. He has also published on the contributions of Latin American intellectual history to development and International Political Economy thought as well as regional integration mechanisms.
Ontario Trillium Scholar (2012-2016)
Trent University UWC Scholar (2001-2005)
Post-doctoral fellow, Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo.
Adjunct professor, Department of Political Science, University of Waterloo (2014, 2015).
Adjunct professor, Master in International Public Policy, Wilfrid Laurier University (2017).
Tags: Global Governance, Resource Extraction, Comparative Political Economy, Mining, Latin America, Global South, Development Studies, International Political Economy, Oil
Rosales, Antulio (2019). Radical rentierism: gold mining, cryptocurrency and commodity collateralization in Venezuela. Review of International Political Economy. ISSN 0969-2290. . doi: 10.1080/09692290.2019.1625422
Rosales, Antulio (2019). Statization and denationalization dynamics in Venezuela's artisanal andsmall scale-large-scale mining interface. Resources policy. ISSN 0301-4207. 63, s 1- 9 . doi: 10.1016/j.resourpol.2019.101422
Rosales, Antulio (2019). Structural constraints in times of resource nationalism: oil policy and state capacity in post-neoliberal Ecuador. Globalizations. ISSN 1474-7731. . doi: 10.1080/14747731.2019.1614722
Rosales, Antulio (2018). China and the decaying of socialist rentierism in Venezuela: instability and the prevalence of non-interventionism. Third World Thematics: A TWQ Journal. ISSN 2380-2014. . doi: 10.1080/23802014.2018.1496797 Show summary
Over the last decade, Venezuela's government turned to China's state-owned enterprises and lending institutions as sources of financial support. As Venezuela's rentier model of development became entrenched, it also became more dependent on China's financial support. In this article, I analyse the recent evolution of this relationship and explain a change in attitude from China in recent years, when Venezuela faced a soaring economic crisis. The article argues that China's response to Venezuela's pursuit of financial support has been timid due to concerns around the stability of the Venezuelan regime, which put repayment of commodity-backed loans at risk. Instead of pushing for much-needed reforms to secure repayment, China's behaviour remained cautious and loyal to the principle of non-interventionism. In turn, Venezuela has been unable to continue delaying an adjustment, which took place in the form of a drastic reduction in imports. China's financial support bolstered an unfeasible rentier-state project. The decaying of Venezuela's socialist rentierism has undermined its own capacity to extract crude and satisfy its commitments with foreign partners.
Rosales, Antulio (2018). Pursuing foreign investment for nationalist goals: Venezuela's hybrid resource nationalism. Business and Politics. ISSN 1369-5258. 20(3), s 438- 464 . doi: 10.1017/bap.2018.6
Helleiner, Eric & Rosales, Antulio (2017). Peripheral Thoughts for International Political Economy: Latin American Ideational Innovation and the Diffusion of the Nineteenth Century Free Trade Doctrine. International Studies Quarterly. ISSN 0020-8833. 61(4), s 924- 934 . doi: 10.1093/isq/sqx063 Show summary
Nineteenth-century Latin America saw more extensive innovative thought about international political economy than generally recognized. Far from simply imitating British free-trade doctrine, Latin Americans from that era actively modified it to produce distinctive revolutionary, conservative, and developmental rationales for free trade. Opponents of free trade also generated three varieties of Latin American protectionist thought—developmental protectionism, artisan political economy, and autarchic protectionism—that foreshadowed some aspects of post-1945 Latin American structuralist and dependency thought. These various ideational innovations involved both of dominant British free-trade doctrine as well as adaptation of alternative ideas diffusing from elsewhere (a process that we call alternative localization). They reveal new dimensions of the intellectual agency of actors in peripheral regions in the context of the international diffusion of ideas. They also highlight underappreciated diversity within, and overlap between, the historical international political economy (IPE) schools of economic liberalism and economic nationalism. More generally, recognition of these Latin American contributions helps to widen the historical foundations of IPE in ways that are more inclusive of the voices, experiences, knowledge claims, and contributions of those beyond the core powers.
Helleiner, Eric & Rosales, Antulio (2017). Toward global IPE: The overlooked significance of the Haya-Mariátegui debate. International Studies Review. ISSN 1521-9488. 19(4), s 667- 691 . doi: 10.1093/isr/vix034
Rosales, Antulio (2017). Contentious nationalization and the embrace of the developmental ideals: Resource nationalism in the 1970s in Ecuador. The Extractive Industries and Society. ISSN 2214-790X. 4(1), s 102- 110 . doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2016.12.007 Show summary
Established scholarship on the governance of natural resources focuses on either material or ideational motivations in explaining states' nationalist policies. Based on the case of Ecuador's oil industry in the 1970s, this article shows how material and ideational drivers are often intertwined. In this article, I analyze the 1970s resource nationalist policies advanced in Ecuador. This article argues that increased rent capture was possible in the 1970s as the Ecuadorian state improved its bargaining position vis-á-vis foreign companies, whose investments had been sunk from previous decades of explorations. But also, this nationalist position was articulated with a broader political notion of development and national identity as an oil producer. Despite these motivations, the various legal reforms that increased state control over the industry in the 1970s were always partial and contentious. The article also highlights how these nationalist policies found in the emerging views of the New International Economic Order (NIEO) and the movement of Third World nations a source of inspiration. This explanation of the 1970s Ecuadorian oil history offers a holistic analysis of both the ideational and the material motivations for the military regime's resource nationalism and explains the complexities of exercising control for a small oil producer.
Rosales, Antulio (2017). Venezuela's Deepening Logic of Extraction. NACLA REPORT ON THE AMERICAS. ISSN 1071-4839. 49(2), s 132- 135 . doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10714839.2017.1331794
Rosales, Antulio (2016). Deepening extractivism and rentierism: China's role in Venezuela's Bolivarian developmental model. Revue canadienne d'études du développement. ISSN 0225-5189. 37(4), s 560- 577 . doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02255189.2016.1208605
Rosales, Antulio (2013). Going Underground: the political economy of the 'left turn' in South America. Third World Quarterly. ISSN 0143-6597. 34(8), s 1443- 1457 . doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2013.831538
Rosales, Antulio (2013). The Banco del Sur and the Return to Development. Latin American perspectives. ISSN 0094-582X. 40(5), s 27- 43 . doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/0094582X13492128
Rosales, Antulio (2012). De la crisis asiática a la crisis inmobiliaria: los debates actuales sobre la arquitectura financiera internacional. Problemas del Desarrollo. ISSN 0301-7036. 163(41), s 32- 51
Bull, Benedicte & Rosales, Antulio (2019). Sannheten om sanksjonene. Klassekampen. ISSN 0805-3839.
Bull, Benedicte & Rosales, Antulio (2019). Venezuela: Fra nasjonal tragedie til regional konflikt. Aftenposten.
Bull, Benedicte & Rosales, Antulio (2019). Økonomiske sanksjoner kan gi kriminelle større spillerom. Aftenposten.
Bull, Benedicte & Rosales, Antulio (2018). Kan en kryptovaluta redde Venezuela?. NRK Ytring.
Bull, Benedicte & Rosales, Antulio (2018). Venezuela etter dialogens sammenbrudd. Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.). ISSN 0804-3116.
Rosales, Antulio (2018). El agotamiento del modelo de neo-extractivismo en Venezuela: causas económicas y sus implicancias globales. Pensamiento Propio. ISSN 1016-9628.
Rosales, Antulio (2018). The political economy of natural resources and development: from neoliberalism to resource nationalism. Revue canadienne d'études du développement. ISSN 0225-5189. 39(1), s 156- 158
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