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Record Nr.

UNINA9910622198903321

Autore

Kelanic Rosemary A.

Titolo

Black gold and blackmail : oil and great power politics / / Rosemary A. Kelanic [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca : , : Cornell University Press, , 2021

ISBN

1-5017-4921-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 online resource)

Collana

Cornell scholarship online

Classificazione

MF 9150

Disciplina

338.2/728

Soggetti

Petroleum industry and trade - Political aspects

Petroleum industry and trade - Military aspects

Energy security - Political aspects

Great powers

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Ubiquity of Oil -- 1. A Theory of Strategic Anticipation -- 2. Oil and Military Effectiveness -- 3. Qualitative Methods for Testing the Theory -- 4. British Vulnerability and the Conquest of Mesopotamia -- 5. The Oil Strategies of Nazi Germany -- 6. American Efforts to Avoid Vulnerability -- 7. Empirical Tests with Fuzzy-Set QCA -- Conclusion: Oil and the Future of Great Power Politics -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

'Black Gold and Blackmail' seeks to explain why great powers adopt such different strategies to protect their oil access from politically motivated disruptions.