This analysis of the United States and energy security examines
the close relationship between US military supremacy in oil-rich
regions and America's maintenance of global power.
"Energy security" generally evokes thoughts of American
intervention in the Middle East to protect US interests in that
region's oil-rich fields. Doug Stokes and Sam Raphael move beyond
that framework to consider US actions in Latin America, Central
Asia, and Africa. Drawing on State and Defense Department records
and other primary sources and previous scholarship, they show how
US foreign policy since World War II has sought to maintain a
global energy security regime that supports the nation's allies
while maintaining American hegemony.
Stokes and Raphael explain how US intervention in energy-rich
states insulates and stabilizes those nations' transnationally
oriented actors and political economies and why American oil
diversification strategy strengthens the country's position against
rivals in the global capitalist system. They argue that
counterinsurgency aid and other types of coercive US statecraft
protect the recipient states from an array of potentially
revolutionary armed and unarmed internal social forces, thereby
securing the energy supplies of nations deemed strategically
important to the United States or its allies.
Clear and accessible, this cutting-edge contemporary policy
analysis will engage scholars of US foreign policy and
international relations as well as policymakers grappling with the
importance of energy security in today's world.
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