Blood and Oil The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Dependency on Imported Petroleum,9780805079388

Blood and Oil The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Dependency on Imported Petroleum

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Edition: Reprint
ISBN13: 9780805079388
ISBN10: 0805079386
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2005-08-01
Publisher(s): Holt Paperbacks
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Summary

Since the tragic events of September 11 and the commencement of the war on terror, the relationship between U.S. policy in the Middle East and the oceans of crude oil that lie beneath the regions soil has come under close scrutiny. In Blood and Oil, international security expert Michael Klare traces oils impact on foreign affairs from World War II to the present, delineating, with clarity and urgency, Americas current predicament. By 2020, the United States will need to import twice as much fuel per year as it did in 1990. Since most of this oil will come from chronically unstable, strongly anti-American regionsthe Persian Gulf, the Caspian Sea, and Africaviolent conflict is sure to follow. It is time, Klare concludes, to change our energy policies, before we spend the next decades paying for oil with blood.

Author Biography

Michael Klare is the director of the Five College Professor of Program in Peace and World Security Studies at Hampshire College in Amherst and the author of Resource Wars. The defense analyst for The Nation and NPR, he lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.

Table of Contents

Preface xi
The Dependency Dilemma: Imported Oil and National Security
1(25)
Lethal Embrace: The American Alliance with Saudi Arabia
26(30)
Choosing Dependency: The Energy Strategy of the Bush Administration
56(18)
Trapped in the Gulf: The Irresistible Lure of Bountiful Petroleum
74(39)
No Safe Havens: Oil and Conflict Beyond the Persian Gulf
113(33)
Geopolitics Reborn: The U.S.-Russian-Chinese Struggle in the Persian Gulf and Caspian Basin
146(34)
Escaping the Dilemma: A Strategy for Energy Autonomy and Integrity
180(23)
Afterword: The Permanent Energy Crisis 203(10)
Notes 213(48)
Acknowledgments 261(2)
Index 263

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