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Record Nr.

UNINA9910554213703321

Autore

Wight David M. <1985->

Titolo

Oil money : Middle East petrodollars and the transformation of US empire, 1967-1988 / / David M. Wight [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca : , : Cornell University Press, , 2021

ISBN

1-5017-1573-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (360 pages)

Collana

The United States in the world

Cornell scholarship online

Disciplina

338.2728

Soggetti

Petroleum industry and trade - Political aspects

United States Foreign economic relations Middle East

Middle East Foreign economic relations United States

United States Economic conditions 1945-

Middle East Economic conditions 1945-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Also issued in print: 2021.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Oil, US Empire, and the Middle East -- 2. The Road to the Oil Shock -- 3. Pursuing Petrodollar Interdependence -- 4. The Triangle to the Nile -- 5. The Petrodollar Economy -- 6. Visions of Petrodollar Promise and Peril -- 7. Reform and Revolt -- 8. Revolution and Invasions -- 9. Recoveries and Crises -- 10. End of an Era -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

In 'Oil Money', David M. Wight offers a new framework for understanding the course of Middle East-US relations during the 1970s and 1980s: the transformation of the US global empire by Middle East petrodollars.