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Crude awakenings : global oil security and American foreign policy /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Yetiv, Steven A.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2004.
Subjects:
Petroleum industry and trade > Middle East.
Security, International.
Middle East > Foreign relations > United States.
United States > Foreign relations > Middle East.
Saudi Arabia > Politics and government > 1932-
Table of Contents:
  • Threats to Saudi stability
  • Power shifts
  • The chief guarantor of oil stability
  • The United States in the Middle East before and after September 11
  • The cold war and global interdependence
  • The China factor
  • The oil weapon
  • Multiple cushions for oil shocks
  • Oil market dynamics and OPEC
  • Global oil, high technology, and the environment
  • Twenty-first-century threats to global oil stability.