Black Gold and Blackmail : Oil and Great Power Politics

Black Gold and Blackmail seeks to explain why great powers adopt such different strategies to protect their oil access from politically motivated disruptions. In extreme cases, such as Imperial Japan in 1941, great powers fought wars to grab oil territory in anticipation of a potential embargo by th...

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Main Author: Kelanic, Rosemary A. (auth)
Format: eBook
Published: Cornell University Press 2020
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