Energy and international war : from Babylon to Baghdad and beyond / Clifford E. Singer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Singer, Clifford.

Series:

World Scientific series on energy and resource economics, 1793-4184 ; v. 6.

World Scientific series on energy and resource economics, 1793-4184 ; v. 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Power resources--Political aspects.

Power resources.

Security, International--Economic aspects.

Security, International.

Strategic materials--Political aspects.

Strategic materials.

Natural resources--Political aspects.

Natural resources.

Energy industries--Political aspects.

Energy industries.

World politics--20th century.

World politics.

World politics--21st century.

Middle East--History, Military--20th century.

Middle East.

Middle East--History, Military--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (452 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Jersey : World Scientific, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Will international wars where energy resources play a central role continue to hold sway over life and death for industrialized nations, or is this a transient phase in the evolution of industrial societies? This book answers this question by tracing the history of energy and conflict from antiquity, through the epic hot and cold wars of the twentieth century, to expected outcome of the war in Iraq. It points the way to the end of wars over control of fossil fuels, and demonstrates why these may be the last major international wars over other resources as well.This book is a must-read for

Contents:

Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Preface; PART ONE: FROM HAMMURABI TO NAPOLEON; 1. Just a Commodity; Oil and the US Military; Economic Impact of Changing Oil Prices; Energy and War; Resource Wars; The Broader Context; Endnotes; 2. Slaves, Gold, and Silver; Slaves, Serfs, and Peasants; Organization of Human Energy; Precious Metals and the Money Supply; Silver, Trade, and War; Dutch Wind and Water; Endnotes; 3. Sources of Conflict Until the Concert of Europe; Wars over Territory and Trade in Europe and Asia; Plunder, Trade, and Territory in Pre-colonial Africa

Napoleon Bonaparte Why Wars Were Fought; Things Change with Time; Historical Importance of the Demographic Transition; Theories of Conflict; Endnotes; PART TWO: COAL AND NON-ENERGY MINERALS; 4. Steamer Coal in the Colonial Era; Coal, Naval Power, and 19th Century Colonialism; The Rise and Decline of South Wales Coal Exports; Endnotes; 5. Franco-Prussian War Sets the Stage; Preludes to the Franco-Prussian War; Germany; Alsace-Lorraine; Thomas-Gilchrist and Steel; French vs German Production; Endnotes; 6. Coal and Iron in the Great War; Industrial Revolution in Britain

United States after the Civil War The Struggle of Nations; Endnotes; 7. Coal in Asia before WWII; Transpacific Cable and US Naval Coal; German Naval Pipedreams; Manchuria; Endnotes; 8. Coal, Steel, Customs, and the EU; Prelude to the European Coal and Steel Community; From ECSC to the EU Enlargement of 2007; Endnotes; 9. Conflict over other Solid Mineral Resources; Nitrates and the War of the Pacific; Phosphates; Copper, Counterrevolution, and Secessionists; Other Non-Carbon Minerals; Conflict Diamonds; Coltan; Historical Legacy and the Future of Platinum; Endnotes

10. An End to Cross-border Warfare over Solid Minerals? Endnote; PART THREE: OIL; 11. Oil and Commerce; Monopoly and Cartel; Standard Oil; Origins and Fate of the "Seven Sisters"; Endnotes; 12. Oil from WWI to WWII; Oil and War From 1911 Through WWI; Romania's Miscalculation; Oil after WWI; Endnotes; 13. Oil and World War II; Italy in Africa; Sources of WWII in Europe; Why did Germany Repeat Napoleon's Catastrophe?; Why Did the Tide of War Turn in 1942?; Why Did Japan Attack Pearl Harbor?; "Process Theory" for Organizational Dysfunction; Perceptions of the Military Importance of Oil; Endnotes

14. Before the Iran-Iraq War Oil Demand and Supply; Suez Crisis and Second Arab-Israeli War; OPEC; Third (Six-Day) Arab-Israeli War; Fourth (Yom-Kippur) Arab-Israeli War; Adjustment, Second Shock, and Great Panic; Endnotes; 15. Iran and Iraq; Iran and the United States; Iran-Iraq War; Endnotes; 16. Gulf War I; Kuwait; Iraqi Unconventional Weapons before 1990; Nuclear Threat Justification for Countering Iraq; Options for Keeping Iraq Disarmed; Endnotes; 17. Sanctions and Inspections; What Iraq Actually Had in 1990; Sanctions and Inspections: 1995-1998; End of the First Round of Inspections

Impact on Palestine and Iran

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 383-419) and index.

ISBN:

9789812791597

9812791590

OCLC:

832771609