Thicker than oil : America's uneasy partnership with Saudi Arabia /
For fifty-five years, the United States and Saudi Arabia were solid partners. Since 9/11 this partnership has been sorely tested. In "Thicker than Oil", Rachel Bronson shows why the partnership became so intimate and the problems that it spawned. This normally secretive relationship comes...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2006.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Oil, God and real estate
- Dropping anchors in the Middle East
- An Islamic pope
- Shifting sands
- Double, double, oil and trouble
- "A new and glorious chapter"
- Mobilizing religion
- Begin or Reagan
- "We support some, they support some"
- The Cold War ends with a bang
- Parting ways
- September 11 and beyond
- Reconfiguring the U.S.-Saudi strategic partnership.