Honourable spoils? The Iraq War and the American hegemonic system’s eternal and perpetual interest in oil
| Autor: | Timothy C. Lehmann |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Iraq war
Middle East Hegemony media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Geography Planning and Development World War II 0507 social and economic geography Policy objectives 010501 environmental sciences Management Monitoring Policy and Law Development 01 natural sciences Dominance (economics) Political economy Political science Economic Geology International development 050703 geography Autonomy 0105 earth and related environmental sciences media_common |
| Zdroj: | The Extractive Industries and Society. 6:428-442 |
| ISSN: | 2214-790X |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.exis.2018.05.009 |
| Popis: | Oil is the most important extractive industry and the United States has dominated its global development, creating the modern petrochemical-based era. This article explains how oil shaped US hegemony and US controlling influence in the Middle East as conventional reserves on US territory dwindled after World War Two. Critical review of hegemonic theory accounts for the US role in the Middle East and the Iraq War in new depth, while defining how the US operates its hegemonic system with allied yet subordinate British and Dutch actors. US pursuit of relative autonomy and power maximization has yielded twin US policy objectives of pursuing North American energy autonomy and dominance over the Middle East so as to influence others’ energy consumption. These simultaneous US policy objects are specified amidst an assessment of how the reserves and exports of Iraqi oil and global gas are advancing US control of the world’s future energy system as it moves toward natural gas and unconventional oils in similar path dependent ways as did the conventional oil era. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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