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Global Energy Security and American Hegemony

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Description for Global Energy Security and American Hegemony Hardback. 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. Series: Themes in Global Social Change. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPS; KNB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 522.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Series
Themes in Global Social Change
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801894961
SKU
V9780801894961
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About Doug Stokes
Doug Stokes is a senior lecturer in international politics at the University of Kent at Canterbury. He is the author of America's Other War: Terrorizing Colombia. Sam Raphael is a lecturer in politics, human rights, and international relations with the Kingston University's School of Social Sciences.

Reviews for Global Energy Security and American Hegemony
Global Energy Security and American Hegemony should definitely be on your reading list.
Aaron W. Hughey Daily News 2010 This well-researched book is impressive in its scholarship and insightful analysis of US pursuit of hegemony in oil-rich regions... Highly recommended. Choice 2011

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