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Many new oil-producing countries are emerging -- most of them developing countries. The lessons from the UK and Norway following the initial discovery of hydrocarbons in the 1960s offer interesting insights, with two very different approaches to resource extraction and two very different outcomes. This experience, briefly outlined in this essay, may inform policymakers in today's new oil-producing countries who are faced with important choices on how best to use their resource wealth and foster development. The framework to analyze contractual arrangements and revenue management revolves around three global cycles: the political cycle, the resource nationalist cycle, and the obsolescing bargain cycle. Adapted from the source document.

'Political Settlements in Divided Societies', one of the latest contributions to the literature on Cyprus, attempts to analyse the failure of the Annan Plan through the prism of consociational approaches to negotiated settlements.

"It is fair to claim that no clear account of the concept of autonomy is available." (Wiberg 1998, 54) It is quite strange and indeed regrettable that the term autonomy is so frequently used (43) both in theory and practice of conflict settlement but still lacks a widely recognized definition.