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Oil and sovereignty : petro-knowledge and energy policy in the United States and Western Europe in the 1970s /

In the decades that followed World War II, cheap and plentiful oil helped to fuel rapid economic growth, ensure political stability, and reinforce the legitimacy of liberal democracies. Yet waves of price increases and the use of the so-called 'oil weapon' by a group of Arab oil-producing...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Graf, Rüdiger, 1975- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Alemán
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, [2018]
Edición:English Language edition.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The world of oil in the 1950s and 1960s
  • Shortages, forecasts, prevention : supplying the Western world with oil
  • The global communication of the "Arab oil weapon"
  • The politics of sovereignty in the energy crisis : the United States
  • West Germany within the world of oil
  • Oil conferences : global interdependence and national sovereignty
  • Petro-knowledge, the perception of limits and sovereignty : creating the oil crisis
  • Conclusion
  • Sovereignty in crisis and the oil crisis in contemporary history
  • Bibliography.