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Do countries fight wars for oil? Given the resource's exceptional military and economic importance, most people assume that states will do anything to obtain it. Challenging this conventional wisdom, The Oil Wars Myth reveals that countries do not launch major conflicts to acquire petroleum resources. Emily Meierding argues that the costs of foreign invasion, territorial occupation, international retaliation, and damage to oil company relations deter even the most powerful countries from initiating "classic oil wars." Examining a century of interstate violence, she demonstrates that, at most, countries have engaged in mild sparring to advance their petroleum ambitions.The Oil Wars Myth elaborates on these findings by reassessing the presumed oil motives for many of the twentieth century's most prominent international conflicts: World War II, the two American Gulf wars, the Iran-Iraq War, the Falklands/Malvinas War, and the Chaco War. These case studies show that countries have consistently refrained from fighting for oil. Meierding also explains why oil war assumptions are so common, despite the lack of supporting evidence. Since classic oil wars exist at the intersection of need and greed-two popular explanations for resource grabs-they are unusually easy to believe in.The Oil Wars Myth will engage and inform anyone interested in oil, war, and the narratives that connect them.

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International relations

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Publié par	Cornell University Press
Date de parution	15 mai 2020
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781501748950
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	9 Mo

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THE OIL WARS MYTH

THEOILWARS MYTH Petroleum and the Causes of International Conﬂict

EmiLY MeierDiNG

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESSITHACA AND LONDON

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First published 2020 by Cornell University Press

Printed in the United States of America

Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data

Names: Meierding, Emily, author. Title: The oil wars myth : petroleum and the causes of international conﬂict / Emily Meierding. Description: Ithaca [New York]: Cornell University Press, 2020. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identiﬁers: LCCN 2019035806 (print) | LCCN 2019035807 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501748288 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781501748950 (pdf) | ISBN 9781501748943 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Petroleum industry and trade—Political aspects—History— 20th century. | World politics—20th century. | War—Causes. | Politics and war. Classiﬁcation: LCC HD9560.6 .M44 2020 (print) | LCC HD9560.6 (ebook) | DDC 338.2/7280904—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019035806 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019035807

The most stubborn facts are those of the spirit, not those of the physical world. —Jean Gottmann

Contents

List of Tables and Maps Acknowledgments

Introduction:BloodandOil

1. From Value to Violence: Connecting Oil and War 2. Explaining the Oil Wars Myth: Mad Max and El Dorado 3. Why Classic Oil Wars Do Not Pay 4. Searching for Classic Oil Wars 5. Red Herrings: The Chaco and Iran–Iraq Wars 6. Oil Spats: The Falkland/Malvinas Islands Dispute 7. Oil Campaigns: World War II 8. Oil Gambit: Iraq’s Invasion of Kuwait

Conclusion: PetroMyths and PetroRealities

Notes Index

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Tables

4.1 Militarized interstate disputes (MIDs) involving hydrocarbonendowed territories 65–67 4.2 Oil spats 70 4.3 Severe red herrings 73

Maps

5.1 The Chaco Boreal (1932) 83 5.2 The Iran–Iraq border (1980) 98 6.1 The Falkland/Malvinas Islands (1976) 107 7.1 Southeast Asia (1939) 125 7.2 Eastern Europe and the Caucasus (December 1940) 137