Oil and Sovereignty

Petro-Knowledge and Energy Policy in the United States and Western Europe in the 1970s
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-78533-806-9
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 474 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 831 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Graf, Rüdiger

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction: Sovereignty and Petro-Knowledge

Chapter 1. The World of Oil in the 1950s and 1960s

Chapter 2. Shortages, Forecasts, Prevention: Supplying the Western World with Oil

Chapter 3. The Global Communication of the ‘Arab Oil Weapon’

Chapter 4. The Politics of Sovereignty in the Energy Crisis: The United States

Chapter 5. West Germany within the World of Oil

Chapter 6. Oil Conferences: Global Interdependence and National Sovereignty

Chapter 7. Petro-Knowledge, the Perception of Limits and Sovereignty: Creating the Oil Crisis

Conclusion: Sovereignty in Crisis and the Oil Crisis in Contemporary History

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Graf, Rüdiger
Rüdiger Graf heads the Research Department on Economic History at ZZF Potsdam. He received his doctorate from the Humboldt University of Berlin and has also taught at Ruhr-University, Bochum. He is the author of Die Zukunft der Weimarer Republik: Krisen und Zukunftsaneignungen in Deutschland 1918–1933 (2005) and co-author of Europäische Zeitgeschichte seit 1945 (2010), an introductory textbook on postwar European history.