Oil and sovereignty : petro-knowledge and energy policy in the United States and Western Europe in the 1970s / by Rüdiger Graf ; translated by Alex Skinner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Graf, Rüdiger, 1975- author.

Contributor:

Skinner, Alex, translator.

Standardized Title:

Öl und Souveränität. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Petroleum industry and trade--Political aspects--United States--History--20th century.

Petroleum industry and trade.

Petroleum industry and trade--Political aspects--Europe, Western--History--20th century.

Energy policy--United States--History--20th century.

Energy policy.

Energy policy--Europe, Western--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (474 pages)

Edition:

First Edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, [2018]

Summary:

In the decades that followed World War II, cheap and plentiful oil helped to fuel rapid economic growth, ensure political stability, and reinforce the legitimacy of liberal democracies. Yet waves of price increases and the use of the so-called “oil weapon” by a group of Arab oil-producing countries in the early 1970s demonstrated the West’s dependence on this vital resource and its vulnerability to economic volatility and political conflicts. Oil and Sovereignty analyzes the national and international strategies that American and European governments formulated to restructure the world of oil and deal with the era’s disruptions. It shows how a variety of different actors combined diplomacy, knowledge creation, economic restructuring, and public relations in their attempts to impose stability and reassert national sovereignty.

Contents:

The world of oil in the 1950s and 1960s

Shortages, forecasts, prevention : supplying the Western world with oil

The global communication of the "Arab oil weapon"

The politics of sovereignty in the energy crisis : the United States

West Germany within the world of oil

Oil conferences : global interdependence and national sovereignty

Petro-knowledge, the perception of limits and sovereignty : creating the oil crisis

Conclusion

Sovereignty in crisis and the oil crisis in contemporary history

Bibliography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781785338076

1785338072

OCLC:

1021063886