| Description |
vii, 248 pages : maps ; 20 cm |
| Contents |
Contents: Iraq: seeking the riches of Babylon -- Central Asia: the Silk Road strategy -- West Africa: exploiting the other Gulf -- Columbia: feeding Washington's addiction -- Venezuela: an alternative for the twenty-first century? |
| Summary |
"Crude interventions examines the military and economic policies of the Bush administration in oil-rich regions of the world. More precisely, it examines the socio-economic and human rights consequences of these policies, as well as those of recent US administrations and multinational energy companies, for the peoples of oil-producing nations in the global South. With only 4 per cent of the world's population, the United States consumes 25 per cent of global energy production. This thirst for energy has played a significant role in determining US foreign policy in recent decades. The desire to secure access to reliable supplies of oil has played an even more prominent role in determining the foreign policy of the government of George W. Bush than of previous administrations." |
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"By focusing on the US role in Iraq, Central Asia, West Africa, Colombia and Venezuela, Crude Interventions makes evident the connections between US energy interests, the war on terror, globalization, human rights abuses and other social injustices endured by those peoples of the South cursed with an abundance of the world's most sought after resource."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Petroleum industry and trade -- Political aspects -- United States.
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Foreign economic relations http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140052 -- 21st century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012478
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United States -- Foreign relations -- 21st century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2003003697
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| LC no. |
2006041826 |
| ISBN |
1842776290 paperback |
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1842776282 |
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1869140923 UKZN |
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9832535840 SIRD |
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9781842776285 |
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9781842776292 paperback |
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