num_pages: 280
description: Just Business Just War is the behind-the-scenes account of tumultuous upheavals in the oil industry between 1995-2002 as industry seeks to gain access to vital petroleum resources overseas. The oil industry, once dominated by the American companies of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil, struggled to re-organize itself in a post Cold War world where 90 percent of the world's petroleum was in the hands of a few state oil companies - more than half of whom were run by regimes hostile to the U.S. and its allies. Author Thomas Collins chronicles the efforts of the oil industry, which included future U.S. vice president Dick Cheney, as it worked to persuade U.S. lawmakers about the need for open markets in the global oil business. Everything changed after September 11, 2001 when Americans realized other forces needed to be resolved before a free market could flourish. Collins details how the oil industry in D.C. absorbed the meaning and motives of the jihadist attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center. This was an enemy pledged to destroy liberty, the foundation for global economic growth. Moreover, industry had to come to grips with the knowledge that this enemy had emerged because of free people's demand for more, and which the oil industry was organized to satisfy.
language: English
title: Just Business Just War
titlecomplete: Just Business Just War
publisher: Ravensyard Pub Ltd