"History of how international petrodollar flows transformed the role of the Middle East within the global empire of the United States during the 1970s and 1980s, both increasing Middle East-US cooperation and generating cultural and political backlashes, with particular focus on…
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 reconstit…
Oil, US empire, and the Middle East -- The road to the oil shock -- Pursuing petrodollar interdependence -- The triangle to the Nile -- The petrodollar economy -- Visions of petrodollar promise and peril -- Reform and revolt -- Revolution and invasions -- Recoveries and crises -…
"History of how international petrodollar flows transformed the role of the Middle East within the global empire of the United States during the 1970s and 1980s, both increasing Middle East-US cooperation and generating cultural and political backlashes, with particular focus on…
"History of how international petrodollar flows transformed the role of the Middle East within the global empire of the United States during the 1970s and 1980s, both increasing Middle East-US cooperation and generating cultural and political backlashes, with particular focus on…