In 1973-1974 soaring commodity prices and an oil embargo alerted
Americans to the twin dangers of resource exhaustion and dependence
on unreliable foreign materials suppliers. This period seemed to
mark a watershed in history as the United States shifted from the
era of relative resource abundance to relative materials scarcity.
Alfred E. Eckes's comprehensive study shows that resource depletion
and supply dislocations are not concerns unique to the 1970s. Since
1914, the quest for secure and stable supplies of industrial
materials has been an important underlying theme of international
relations and American diplomacy. Although the United States has
been blessed with a diversified materials base, it has pursued a
minerals strategy designed to exploit low-cost, high-quality ores
abroad. Eckes demonstrates how this policy has led to official
protection for overseas private investments, involving a role for
the Central Intelligence Agency. Some modern historians have
neglected the importance of resources in shaping diplomacy and
history. This book, based on a vast variety of unutilized archival
collections and recently declassified government documents, helps
to correct that imbalance. In the process it illuminates an
important and still timely aspect of America's global interests.
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