Oil and Sovereignty - Petro-Knowledge and Energy Policy in the United States and Western Europe during the 1970sPevná vazba
Oil and Sovereignty - Petro-Knowledge and Energy Policy in the United States and Western Europe during the 1970sPevná vazba In the decades that followed World War II, cheap and plentiful oil helped…
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Oil and Sovereignty - Petro-Knowledge and Energy Policy in the United States and Western Europe during the 1970sPevná vazba
In the decades that followed World War II, cheap and plentiful oil helped to fuel rapid economic growth, ensure political stability, and reinforce the legitimacy of liberal democracies. Oil and Sovereignty analyzes the national and international strategies that American and European governments formulated to restructure the world of oil and deal with the era's disruptions. Yet waves of price increases and the use of the so-called "oil weapon" by a group of Arab oil-producing countries in the early 1970s demonstrated the West's dependence on this vital resource and its vulnerability to economic volatility and political conflicts.
It shows how a variety of different actors combined diplomacy, knowledge creation, economic restructuring, and public relations in their attempts to impose stability and reassert national