Oil Money : Middle East Petrodollars and the Transformation of US Empire, 1967-1988 /

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"History of how international petrodollar flows transformed the role of the Middle East within the global empire of the United States during the 1970s and 1980s, both increasing Middle East-US cooperation and generating cultural and political backlashes, with particular focus on US relations wi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wight, David M., 1985- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca [New York] Cornell University Press 2021
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Petroleum industry and trade > Political aspects
International economic relations
Petroleum industry and trade > Political aspects.
United States
Middle East
Middle East > Foreign economic relations > United States > History > 20th century.
United States > Foreign economic relations > Middle East > History > 20th century.
History
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Oil, US empire, and the Middle East
  • The road to the oil shock
  • Pursuing petrodollar interdependence
  • The triangle to the Nile
  • The petrodollar economy
  • Visions of petrodollar promise and peril
  • Reform and revolt
  • Revolution and invasions
  • Recoveries and crises
  • End of an era

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