Crude Awakenings by Steve A Yetiv HARDBACK 9780801442681

Crude AwakeningsGlobal Oil Security and American Foreign Policy\nAuthor(s): Steve A. Yetiv\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cornell University Press, United States\nImprint: Cornell University Press\nISBN-13: 9780801442681, 978-0801442681\nSynopsis\n\""The real story of global oil over the past twenty-five years is not about the spillover effects of Palestinians fighting Israelis, or terrorist attacks on [url] forces in Saudi Arabia and Yemen, or Iraq's stormy relationship with Kuwait. It is not even about periodic small- and large-scale [url] attacks on Iraq. Rather, the real story is about longer-term developments that have changed the international relations of the Middle East, politics at the global level, and world oil markets. These developments have increased oil stability.\""from the Introduction\n\n Thirty years after OAPEC shattered world markets for oil, the Western world remains profoundly dependent on foreign, particularly Middle Eastern, sources of petroleum. [url] political.