Crude Awakenings : : Global Oil Security and American Foreign Policy / / Steve A. Yetiv.

"The real story of global oil over the past twenty-five years is not about the spillover effects of Palestinians fighting Israelis, or terrorist attacks on U.S. forces in Saudi Arabia and Yemen, or Iraq's stormy relationship with Kuwait. It is not even about periodic small- and large-scale...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2010]
©2011
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (248 p.) :; 9 graphs, 6 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures and Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Threats to Saudi Stability
  • 3. Power Shifts
  • 4. The Chief Guarantor of Oil Stability
  • 5. The United States in the Middle East before and after September 11
  • 6. The Cold War and Global Interdependence
  • 7. The China Factor
  • 8. The Oil Weapon
  • 9. Multiple Cushions for Oil Shocks
  • 10. Oil Market Dynamics and OPEC
  • 11. Global Oil, High Technology, and the Environment
  • 12. Twenty-First-Century Threats to Global Oil Stability
  • Appendix A. List of Interview Subjects
  • Appendix B. The Middle East and Global Energy: A Chronology, 1973-2003
  • Index