Crude awakenings
Subtitle: global oil security and American foreign policy
By: Steve A. Yetiv.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
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-
Description: "Steve A. Yetiv argues that common assumptions about oil markets are wrong. Although prices remain volatile, Yetiv's account portrays a world market in petroleum products far more benign and predictable than the one to which we are accustomed. In Crude Awakenings, he identifies and analyzes real and potential threats to the global energy supply, including wars, revolutions, coups, dangerous alliances, oil embargoes, Islamic radicalism, and transnational terrorism. However, he also shows how some of these threats have been mitigated and how global oil security has been reinforced."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Contents: Threats to Saudi stability; title: Power shifts; title: The chief guarantor of oil stability; title: The United States in the Middle East before and after September 11; title: The cold war and global interdependence; title: The China factor; title: The oil weapon; title: Multiple cushions for oil shocks; title: Oil market dynamics and OPEC; title: Global oil, high technology, and the environment; title: Twenty-first-century threats to global oil stability.