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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. ** 20th Century Economic History United States Western Business & Economics Modern Europe History Oil and Sovereignty 2 Contents 6 Illustrations 7 Acknowledgements 8 Abbreviations 11 Introduction — Sovereignty and Petro-Knowledge 14 Chapter 1 — The World of Oil in the 1950s and 1960s 32 Chapter 2 — Shortages, Forecasts, Prevention: Supplying the Western Worl

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Author

Rüdiger Graf

Publisher

Berghahn Books, Incorporated

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781785338069

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Management, Western