Beschreibung:
In Oil Money, David M. Wight offers a new framework for understanding the course of Middle East-US relations during the 1970s and 1980s: the transformation of the US global empire by Middle East petrodollars. During these two decades, American, Arab, and Iranian elites reconstituted the primary role of the Middle East within the global system of US power from a supplier of cheap crude oil to a source of abundant petrodollars, the revenues earned from the export of oil.
Introduction1. Oil, US Empire, and the Middle East2. The Road to the Oil Shock3. Pursuing Petrodollar Interdependence4. The Triangle to the Nile5. The Petrodollar Economy6. Visions of Petrodollar Promise and Peril7. Reform and Revolt8. Revolution and Invasions9. Recoveries and Crises10. End of an EraConclusion