title: A importância das National Oil Companies para as Relações Internacionais contemporâneas: um estudo de caso da GAZPROM
abstract: Control over natural resources such as oil and gas constitutes an aspect of fundamental importance in the relationship among countries. Being mostly controlled by the state, through National Oil Companies (NOCs), the management of these resources makes it possible for states to use them as a foreign policy tool. With the higher prices of hydrocarbons in the international market since 2000, the reestablishment of NOCs became a new alternative for projecting power at a global level.