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100 1 $aStokes, Doug,$d1972-
245 10 $aGlobal energy security and American hegemony /$cDoug Stokes and Sam Raphael.
260 $aBaltimore, Md. :$bJohns Hopkins University Press,$c2010.
300 $a[xiii], 280 p. ;$c24 cm.
490 1 $aThemes in global social change
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction : Global oil supplies and US intervention -- US hegemony and global energy security -- Counterinsurgency and the stabilization of order -- The Persian Gulf and beyond -- The Caspian Basin : US oil hegemony in the Former Soviet Union -- West Africa : stabilizing the Gulf of Guinea -- Latin America : capital, crude, and counterinsurgency in America's "backyard" -- Conclusion : The futures of American hegemony?
520 $a"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.
520 $aStokes 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."--Pub. desc. from website.
520 $a"This brilliant book forces us to rethink the last 70 years. It demonstrates how the Iraqi invasion [Iraq] 'was clearly about oil'; how that quest has roots running back to the 1940s; and how lopsided policies termed 'globalization' have been integrated into this quest. These themes are graphically driven home in superb analyses of, among other areas, Latin America, the Middle East, and Central Asia--areas that will determine future American prosperity."--W. LaFeber (review), pub. website.
650 0 $aEnergy policy$zUnited States.
651 0 $aUnited States$xForeign economic relations$zDeveloping countries.
651 0 $aDeveloping countries$xForeign economic relations$zUnited States.
700 1 $aRaphael, Sam,$d1977-
830 0 $aThemes in global social change.
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