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Author : William Cooper Knowlton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (166 download)
Download or read book Sheathing the Oil Weapon written by William Cooper Knowlton and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daniel Yergin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1471104753
Total Pages : 928 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (711 download)
Download or read book The Prize written by Daniel Yergin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-09-11 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9354359582
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (543 download)
Download or read book The Sheathed Sword written by and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-09-30 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a brief interlude following the Cold War, nuclear weapons have regained their prominent place in world affairs. Yet our current nuclear age will not be a replay of the Cold War. New technologies, changing political contexts and the death of old arms-control agreements mean that today's nuclear strategists have to navigate unchartered waters filled with fresh perils. Unfortunately, the consequences of failure in the nuclear world can be catastrophic. The immediate imperative today is to lower the possibility of nuclear weapons use during a crisis or conflict involving nuclear powers. While deliberate or pre-emptive nuclear use is less likely, the rising danger of our time is that nuclear weapons will be employed due to some combination of miscommunication, misjudgment, misperception and sheer accident. The Sheathed Sword: From Nuclear Brink to No First Use is a collection of essays by leading scholars and practitioners on the role of nuclear weapons in global security. The contributors examine how individual states view nuclear weapons, the devastating effects of nuclear war on the world's climate and the issues around nuclear no first use. They also debate the feasibility and desirability of a global no-first-use (GNFU) agreement.
Author : The International Institute for Strategic Studies
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134046030
Total Pages : 703 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)
Download or read book The Evolution of Strategic Thought written by The International Institute for Strategic Studies and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-03-25 with total page 703 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides an understanding of the evolution of strategic thinking since the Adelphi Papers began during the Cold War. These papers are important both in terms of the intellectual contribution they made at the time, and their enduring value in shedding light even on today's security challenges.
Author : Stephen C. Pelletière
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313057338
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book America's Oil Wars written by Stephen C. Pelletière and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2004-07-30 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why has the United States become involved in so many wars in the Middle East, and why just now? What explains the extraordinary disconnect between pre-war statements by the Bush Administration and the post-war reality? How much of U.S. intelligence was wrong, and why? Why did the Bush Administration ignore warnings by senior military commanders about the difficulties they would confront in trying to occupy Iraq? Why was there virtually no pre-war planning for administering Iraq once the war was successfully concluded? Pelletiere argues that, in going to war twice against Iraq and once against Afghanistan, the United States was seeking to put a lock on its future energy supplies. In neglecting diplomacy for so long in dealing with the Gulf States, Washington was practically compelled to use force to get what it wanted. Pelletiere explores the context of events that produced the attacks of September 11, 2001, the pretext for the United States' military move into the region. He debunks the Bush Administration's claim that the United States was beset by Islamic terrorists bent on destroying western civilization and set the stage for an examination of other possible motives. Next, he details the history of U.S. involvement in the region, beginning with the discovery of oil and the pioneering efforts of American and British companies to open the region to exploration. After the OPEC Revolution, he argues, the United States would allow itself to be drawn into an arms-supplying relationship with the Shah of Iran and the military-industrial complex would become hooked on subsidies from the Gulf monarchs. Finally, after discussing the First Gulf War and recent events in Afghanistan, Pelletiere contends that these conflicts and the current war in Iraq are really part of a greater struggle between North and South, a struggle that will have significant consequences for the future of the United States.
Author : Roy L. Nersesian
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317511867
Total Pages : 537 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)
Download or read book Energy Economics written by Roy L. Nersesian and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-02 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three quarters of our current electricity usage and transport methods are derived from fossil fuels and yet within two centuries these resources will dry up. Energy Economics covers the role of each fossil and renewable energy source in today’s world, providing the information and tools that will enable students to understand the finite nature of fossil fuels and the alternative solutions that are available. This textbook provides detailed examinations of key energy sources – both fossil fuels and renewables including oil, coal, solar, and wind power – and summarises how the current economics of energy evolved. Subsequent chapters explore issues around policy, technology and the possible future for each type of energy. In addition to this, readers are introduced to controversial topics including fracking and global warming in dedicated chapters on climate change and sustainability. Each chapter concludes with a series of tasks, providing example problems and projects in order to further explore the proposed issues. An accompanying companion website contains extensive additional material on the history of the major types of fuel as well as technical material relating to oil exploration, the development of solar power and historical environmental legislation. This textbook is an essential text for those who study energy economics, resource economics or energy policy.
Author : Peter Mangold
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135046832
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Superpower Intervention in the Middle East (Routledge Revivals) written by Peter Mangold and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-14 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strategically placed on the global chess board, as well as controlling vast oil resources, the Middle East was one of the main theatres of Cold War. In the 1950s the Soviet Union had taken advantage of Arab Nationalists’ disillusion with British and French Imperialism, along with the emerging Arab-Israeli conflict, to establish relations with Egypt, Syria and Iraq. The United States responded by moving in to shore up the Western position. Confrontation was inevitable. Superpower Intervention in the Middle East was written in 1978, when this confrontation was at its height. The book’s main theme focuses on how the superpowers became competitively involved in local Middle East conflicts over which they could exercise only limited control, and the risks of nuclear confrontation of the kind which occurred at the end of the 1973 Arab-Israeli war. The threat to Western oil supplies is also examined. This is a fascinating work, of great relevance to scholars and students of Middle Eastern history and political diplomacy, as well as those with an interest in the relationship between the Western superpowers and this volatile region.
Author : Mitchell Geoffrey Bard
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780028644103
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (441 download)
Download or read book The Complete Idiot's Guide to Middle East Conflict written by Mitchell Geoffrey Bard and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2003 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yours"re no idiot, of course. You know that the countries of the Middle East-Israel, Iraq, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and more-are in the news daily because of failed peace initiatives, suicide bombings, or threats to our security. However, the nations contained within this desert region have fought one another long before it was broadcast on CNN-and even long before the state of Israel existed. Understand the ancient animosities and modern tensions that continue to plague this troubled region. The Complete Idiotrs"s Guidereg; to Middle East Conflict, Second Edition, shows you exactly why the Holy Land continues to remain a war zone despite the efforts of peacemakers. In this newly updated and revised Complete Idiotrs"s Guidereg;, you get: --The birth of the empires established under the Muslim and Christian faiths. --The division of the Middle East into new nations after World War I-including the creation of a Jewish homeland in Palestine. --How the United States became involved in the region-and the many alliances formed and broken over the decades. --The history of terrorism in the Middle East-and the formation of the U.S.led coalition to combat it.
Author : Marwan R. Buheiry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book U.S. Threats of Intervention Against Arab Oil, 1973-1979 written by Marwan R. Buheiry and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Loftus
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 1250167264
Total Pages : 1118 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)
Download or read book The Secret War Against the Jews written by John Loftus and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 1118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unearthing the Subverted Truth: Espionage, Global Power Play and the Hidden War Against the Jews A hugely controversial work that exposes a series of scandals from Oliver North to the British royal family, The Secret War Against the Jews reveals as much about political corruption inside Western intelligence as it does about Israel. Using thousands of formerly top-secret documents and numerous insider accounts, Loftus and Aarons expose the clandestine operations of Western countries such as the United States and Great Britain. Professed allies of Israel on the world stage, these countries are revealed to have repeatedly spied on Palestine and Israel for oil, multinational profits and geopolitical gains. The startling duplicity reaches as deep as the Orwellian manipulation of international covert policies and national security agendas. This book transcends the realm of mere history, raising grave allegations that will be the subject of debate for years to come.
Author : Klaus Knorr
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Economic Issues and National Security written by Klaus Knorr and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed to provide college and university presidents with an overview of distance education, e-learning, or distributed learning. Provides a general framework for understanding the key questions that distributed education poses to the higher education community.
Author : Salim Yaqub
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501706888
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Imperfect Strangers written by Salim Yaqub and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-10 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Imperfect Strangers, Salim Yaqub argues that the 1970s were a pivotal decade for U.S.-Arab relations, whether at the upper levels of diplomacy, in street-level interactions, or in the realm of the imagination. In those years, Americans and Arabs came to know each other as never before. With Western Europe’s imperial legacy fading in the Middle East, American commerce and investment spread throughout the Arab world. The United States strengthened its strategic ties to some Arab states, even as it drew closer to Israel. Maneuvering Moscow to the sidelines, Washington placed itself at the center of Arab-Israeli diplomacy. Meanwhile, the rise of international terrorism, the Arab oil embargo and related increases in the price of oil, and expanding immigration from the Middle East forced Americans to pay closer attention to the Arab world. Yaqub combines insights from diplomatic, political, cultural, and immigration history to chronicle the activities of a wide array of American and Arab actors—political leaders, diplomats, warriors, activists, scholars, businesspeople, novelists, and others. He shows that growing interdependence raised hopes for a broad political accommodation between the two societies. Yet a series of disruptions in the second half of the decade thwarted such prospects. Arabs recoiled from a U.S.-brokered peace process that fortified Israel’s occupation of Arab land. Americans grew increasingly resentful of Arab oil pressures, attitudes dovetailing with broader anti-Muslim sentiments aroused by the Iranian hostage crisis. At the same time, elements of the U.S. intelligentsia became more respectful of Arab perspectives as a newly assertive Arab American community emerged into political life. These patterns left a contradictory legacy of estrangement and accommodation that continued in later decades and remains with us today.
Author : Dauda Abubakar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Oil, the State and Power Politics written by Dauda Abubakar and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Oil Crisis written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hanns Maull
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Oil and Influence written by Hanns Maull and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Mansfield
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)
Download or read book The Arabs written by Peter Mansfield and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1985 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Pelican book.
Author : Marwan R. Buheiry
Publisher : Darwin Press, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Formation and Perception of the Modern Arab World written by Marwan R. Buheiry and published by Darwin Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 1989 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume -- an indispensable contribution to an understanding of contemporary Arab history -- comprises twenty-seven important studies by the eminent Lebanese historian Marwan R Buheiry, who died in London in 1986. In the course of his distinguished career at the American University of Beirut, he published many studies on the political, economic, social, and intellectual history of the modern Arab world, in particular of Lebanon and the Arab East in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The studies published in this volume revolve around four main themes: European Perceptions of the Orient; The Superpowers and the Arab World; The Economic History of the Middle East; Middle Eastern Intellectual and Artistic History. Many of these studies were first published in French or Arabic translation, this volume publishes the original English text and includes much previously unpublished material. The final chapter includes a selection of 49 photographs from Buheiry's photograph collection.
