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Oil Powers - A History of the U.s.-Saudi Alliance

English · Paperback / Softback

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Victor McFarland challenges the view that the U.S.-Saudi alliance is the inevitable consequence of American energy demand and Saudi Arabia's huge oil reserves. Oil Powers traces the growth of the alliance through a dense web of political, economic, and social connections that bolstered royal and executive power and the national-security state.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
A Note on Arabic Transliteration
Introduction: Jeddah, 1974
1. Wheels of Empire
2. Roads to Profit
3. Ignition
4. Machines in Motion
5. The Cutoff
6. Unmoored
7. Turning Right
8. Ascent
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Victor McFarland (PhD, Yale) is assistant professor at the University of Missouri and a fellow at the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard University. This would be his first book.

Summary

Victor McFarland challenges the view that the U.S.-Saudi alliance is the inevitable consequence of American energy demand and Saudi Arabia’s huge oil reserves. Oil Powers traces the growth of the alliance through a dense web of political, economic, and social connections that bolstered royal and executive power and the national-security state.

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Erudite and eloquent, Oil Powers is required reading for all those who are interested in the history of U.S.-Saudi relations, oil politics, and the international political economy.

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