Crude Power

Author : Matthieu Auzanneau
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781603589789

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Oil, Power, and War by Matthieu Auzanneau Pdf

The story of oil is one of hubris, fortune, betrayal, and destruction. It is the story of a resource that has been undeniably central to the creation of our modern culture, and ever-present during the darkest exploits of empire the world over. For the past 150 years, oil has become the most essential ingredient for economic, military, and political power. And it has brought us to our present moment in which political leaders and the fossil-fuel industry consider extraordinary, and extraordinarily dangerous, policy on a world stage marked by shifting power bases. Upending the conventional wisdom by crafting a “people’s history,” award-winning journalist Matthieu Auzanneau deftly traces how oil became a national and then global addiction, outlines the enormous consequences of that addiction, sheds new light on major historical and contemporary figures, and raises new questions about stories we thought we knew well: What really sparked the oil crises in the 1970s, the shift away from the gold standard at Bretton Woods, or even the financial crash of 2008? How has oil shaped the events that have defined our times: two world wars, the Cold War, the Great Depression, ongoing wars in the Middle East, the advent of neoliberalism, and the Great Recession, among them? With brutal clarity, Oil, Power, and War exposes the heavy hand oil has had in all of our lives—and illustrates how much heavier that hand could get during the increasingly desperate race to control the last of the world’s easily and cheaply extractable reserves.

Author : Øystein Noreng
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2005-12-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780857711793

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Crude Power by Øystein Noreng Pdf

Many people in the world today believe Bush's war against Saddam Hussein is only about oil. Iraq has the second biggest petroleum reserves in the Middle East, and America's relations with its prime supplier Saudi Arabia have turned sour in the wake of 9/11. Invading Iraq, so many argue, is merely colonising an oil field. Oil has transformed the world and remains the most important resource of our age. It has made the wealth of millions of people - from Venezuela to Norway via the Persian Gulf - and holds their futures in its fortunes. The Middle East is the earth's greatest petroleum depot. It is also the most explosive region in the world today. Now more than ever, with the global economy under severe threat, oil is of prime geopolitical concern. Crude Power provides a comprehensive analysis both of the world's dependency on Middle Eastern oil, and of the very dangerous way politics and economics play themselves out in the oil game - as producers and consumers tug at each others' interests. It is a tug of war: Oystein Noreng explains what all concerned are fighting for. Placing OPEC (the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries) into its wider world context, he examines in detail how shifting oil prices affect everything from international trade balances to inflation rates. In the current political climate of the Middle East and Central Asia, with anti-Americanism and the threat of terrorism in such countries as Saudi Arabia running high, oil holds the future of the world economy as well as thousands of lives in its hands. Crude Power is an indispensable book for anyone concerned with the fate of the world today, and that most important of issues: the interplay of power and money in the Middle East and beyond.

Author : Øystein Noreng
Publisher : I.B. Tauris
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2002-09-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111964073

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Crude Power by Øystein Noreng Pdf

An analysis of both the world's dependency on Middle Eastern oil and of the very dangerous way politics and economics play themselves out in the oil game.

Author : Linda Bickerstaff
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2002-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0823936627

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Oil Power of the Future by Linda Bickerstaff Pdf

Burning petroleum is one of the main culprits in the acceleration of global warming. The United States uses 25 percent of the world’s oil, yet it has only 4 percent of the world’s population and 3 percent of the world’s oil reserves. This book discusses ways the United States can find more oil on its own land, use its own oil more safely and efficiently, and escape the trap of buying oil abroad, to improve the quality of life and the environment in the future.

Author : Timothy Mitchell
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781781681169

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Carbon Democracy by Timothy Mitchell Pdf

“A brilliant, revisionist argument that places oil companies at the heart of 20th century history—and of the political and environmental crises we now face.” —Guardian Oil is a curse, it is often said, that condemns the countries producing it to an existence defined by war, corruption and enormous inequality. Carbon Democracy tells a more complex story, arguing that no nation escapes the political consequences of our collective dependence on oil. It shapes the body politic both in regions such as the Middle East, which rely upon revenues from oil production, and in the places that have the greatest demand for energy. Timothy Mitchell begins with the history of coal power to tell a radical new story about the rise of democracy. Coal was a source of energy so open to disruption that oligarchies in the West became vulnerable for the first time to mass demands for democracy. In the mid-twentieth century, however, the development of cheap and abundant energy from oil, most notably from the Middle East, offered a means to reduce this vulnerability to democratic pressures. The abundance of oil made it possible for the first time in history to reorganize political life around the management of something now called “the economy” and the promise of its infinite growth. The politics of the West became dependent on an undemocratic Middle East. In the twenty-first century, the oil-based forms of modern democratic politics have become unsustainable. Foreign intervention and military rule are faltering in the Middle East, while governments everywhere appear incapable of addressing the crises that threaten to end the age of carbon democracy—the disappearance of cheap energy and the carbon-fuelled collapse of the ecological order. In making the production of energy the central force shaping the democratic age, Carbon Democracy rethinks the history of energy, the politics of nature, the theory of democracy, and the place of the Middle East in our common world.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Energy policy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105211338129

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Energy Fact Book by Anonim Pdf

Author : Larry Everest
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111934118

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Oil, Power and Empire by Larry Everest Pdf

How the U.S. intervention is reshaping the world.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Energy consumption
ISBN : MINN:31951D02403023K

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International Energy Outlook by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mostafa Elm
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1994-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0815626428

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Oil, Power, and Principle by Mostafa Elm Pdf

This work deals with the oil crises of the 1950s, precipitated by Iran's decision to nationalise the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company. The roots of the revolt against British imperialism are explored here, along with the long-term consequences of instability in the Middle East.

Author : Christopher F. Jones
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780674728899

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Routes of Power by Christopher F. Jones Pdf

The fossil fuel revolution is usually a tale of advances in energy production. Christopher Jones tells a tale of advances in energy access—canals, pipelines, wires delivering cheap, abundant power to cities at a distance from production sites. Between 1820 and 1930 these new transportation networks set the U.S. on a path to fossil fuel dependence.

Author : Daniel Yergin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 928 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781471104756

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The Prize by Daniel Yergin Pdf

The Prize recounts the panoramic history of oil -- and the struggle for wealth power that has always surrounded oil. This struggle has shaken the world economy, dictated the outcome of wars, and transformed the destiny of men and nations. The Prize is as much a history of the twentieth century as of the oil industry itself. The canvas of this history is enormous -- from the drilling of the first well in Pennsylvania through two great world wars to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and Operation Desert Storm. The cast extends from wildcatters and rogues to oil tycoons, and from Winston Churchill and Ibn Saud to George Bush and Saddam Hussein. The definitive work on the subject of oil and a major contribution to understanding our century, The Prize is a book of extraordinary breadth, riveting excitement -- and great importance.

Author : Peter R. Odell
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038343336

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Oil and World Power by Peter R. Odell Pdf

Examines the political, geographic, and economic aspects of the oil industry and evaluates the influence of events since 1973 on international relations.

Author : Douglas Rogers
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781501701566

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The Depths of Russia by Douglas Rogers Pdf

Russia is among the world’s leading oil producers, sitting atop the planet’s eighth largest reserves. Like other oil-producing nations, it has been profoundly transformed by the oil industry. In The Depths of Russia, Douglas Rogers offers a nuanced and multifaceted analysis of oil’s place in Soviet and Russian life, based on ethnographic fieldwork and archival research in the Perm region of the Urals. Moving beyond models of oil calibrated to capitalist centers and postcolonial "petrostates," Rogers traces the distinctive contours of the socialist—and then postsocialist—oil complex, showing how oil has figured in the making and remaking of space and time, state and corporation, exchange and money, and past and present. He pays special attention to the material properties and transformations of oil (from depth in subsoil deposits to toxicity in refining) and to the ways oil has echoed through a range of cultural registers. The Depths of Russia challenges the common focus on high politics and Kremlin intrigue by considering the role of oil in barter exchanges and surrogate currencies, industry-sponsored social and cultural development initiatives, and the city of Perm’s campaign to become a European Capital of Culture. Rogers also situates Soviet and post-Soviet oil in global contexts, showing that many of the forms of state and corporate power that emerged in Russia after socialism are not outliers but very much part of a global family of state-corporate alliances gathered at the intersection of corporate social responsibility, cultural sponsorship, and the energy and extractive industries.

Author : Peter R. Odell
Publisher : Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England ; New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Penguin Books
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015000689227

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Oil and World Power by Peter R. Odell Pdf

A discussion of the economics and politics of the international oil industry.

Author : Matthieu Auzanneau
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
ISBN : 9781603587433

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Oil, Power, and War by Matthieu Auzanneau Pdf

"The story of oil is one of hubris, fortune, betrayal, and destruction. It is the story of a resource undeniably central to the advancement of what we consider modern culture - one that continues to be ever-present during the darkest exploits of empire the world over"--Provided by publisher