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Crude awakenings : global oil security and American foreign policy /

"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 analyze...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Yetiv, Steven A.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2004.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Threats to Saudi stability
  • Power shifts
  • The chief guarantor of oil stability
  • The United States in the Middle East before and after September 11
  • The cold war and global interdependence
  • The China factor
  • The oil weapon
  • Multiple cushions for oil shocks
  • Oil market dynamics and OPEC
  • Global oil, high technology, and the environment
  • Twenty-first-century threats to global oil stability.