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Crude Power (Paperback)
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Crude Power (Paperback)
Series: Library of International Relations, v. 21
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Many people in the world today believe Bush's war against Saddam
Hussein is only about oil. Iraq has the second biggest petroleum
reserves in the Middle East, and America's relations with its prime
supplier Saudi Arabia have turned sour in the wake of 9/11.
Invading Iraq, so many argue, is merely colonising an oil field.
Oil has transformed the world and remains the most important
resource of our age. It has made the wealth of millions of people -
from Venezuela to Norway via the Persian Gulf - and holds their
futures in its fortunes. The Middle East is the earth's greatest
petroleum depot. It is also the most explosive region in the world
today. Now more than ever, with the global economy under severe
threat, oil is of prime geopolitical concern. Crude Power provides
a comprehensive analysis both of the world's dependency on Middle
Eastern oil, and of the very dangerous way politics and economics
play themselves out in the oil game - as producers and consumers
tug at each others' interests. It is a tug of war: Oystein Noreng
explains what all concerned are fighting for. Placing OPEC (the
Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries) into its wider world
context, he examines in detail how shifting oil prices affect
everything from international trade balances to inflation rates. In
the current political climate of the Middle East and Central Asia,
with anti-Americanism and the threat of terrorism in such countries
as Saudi Arabia running high, oil holds the future of the world
economy as well as thousands of lives in its hands. Crude Power is
an indispensable book for anyone concerned with the fate of the
world today, and that most important of issues: the interplay of
power and money in the Middle East and beyond.
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