The Hundred Years' War for Oil
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The Hundred Years' War for Oil
19.99 €
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The increased confrontation between the United States and Russia since late 2006 calls for a deeper understanding of why, according to U.S. strategists from Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski to their current disciples, Russia is the prize in the game of world power. A prize even more important than China. This paper is an attempt to reveal the key importance of today's Russia to all those who are trying to make sense of the incomprehensible trends in world politics. The analysis of the events around Iraq and Afghanistan and the wave of "color revolutions" in the post-Soviet space is preceded by an assessment of the geopolitical and historical context of these events. The author carefully traces the role of oil as a pillar of Anglo-American power in the last century and shows that it is not oil itself that is important, but the control over it that gives real political power. The Cold War of the last century was the best vehicle for this, as fear of the Soviet threat successfully isolated Russia and reinforced British and US dominance through the possession of resources. This book traces the role of oil as a pillar of Anglo-American power from the second half of the nineteenth century onwards. But the leitmotif is not oil per se, but the geopolitical control over it that gives political power.
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