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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788293003321

Autore

Price-Smith Andrew T.

Titolo

Oil, illiberalism, and war : an analysis of energy and US foreign policy / / Andrew T. Price-Smith

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

0-262-32753-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (245 p.)

Disciplina

327.73

Soggetti

Petroleum industry and trade - Political aspects - United States

Energy policy - United States

United States Foreign relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The History of Oil and International Affairs; 2 The Illiberal Political Economy of Oil; 3 Oil, American Diplomacy, and Weak Institutions; 4 Oil and International Security; 5 Oil and US Grand Strategy; Conclusion; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

An argument that America's addiction to crude oil has driven a foreign policy of intervention and exploitation hidden behind a facade of liberal internationalism.