Fueling the Fire / Jeff D. Colgan 

Public ISBD Titre : Fueling the Fire : Pathways from Oil to War Type de document : document électronique Auteurs : Jeff D. Colgan, Auteur Editeur : The MIT Press Année de publication : Fall 2013 Collection : International Security num. Vol. 38, nr. 2 Importance : 35 p Langues : Anglais (eng) Catégories : Énergie Conflits armés Tags : Pétrole  Conflits armés  Etats-Unis  Energie Résumé : What roles do oil and energy play in international conºict? In public debates, the issue often provokes significant controversy. Critics of the two U.S.-led wars against Iraq (in 1991 and 2003) charged that they traded “blood for oil,” and that they formed a part of an American neo-imperialist agenda to control oil in the Middle East. The U.S. government, on the other hand, explicitly denied that the wars were about oil, especially in 2003. U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld argued that the war “has nothing to do with oil, literally nothing to do with oil,” a theme echoed by White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer. Political scientists have had remarkably little to say on the issue. Realist analyses of the causes of war, even those that speciªcally highlight the ability of states to acquire or extract resources, tend to say very little about oil and energy. Among the few scholars who do focus on the issue, there is little agreement. Some argue that “resource wars” are frequent and that oil plays a major causal role. Others cast doubt on the importance of such wars, pointing to the lack of systematic evidence. Policy analysts tend to focus narrowly on “energy security” as defined by reliable access to fuel supplies, while missing the broader relationships between energy and security. Systematic analyses of these relationships are rare. Fueling the Fire : Pathways from Oil to War [document électronique] / Jeff D. Colgan, Auteur . - [S.l.] : The MIT Press, Fall 2013 . - 35 p. - (International Security; Vol. 38, nr. 2) . Langues : Anglais (eng) Catégories : Énergie Conflits armés Tags : Pétrole  Conflits armés  Etats-Unis  Energie Résumé : What roles do oil and energy play in international conºict? In public debates, the issue often provokes significant controversy. Critics of the two U.S.-led wars against Iraq (in 1991 and 2003) charged that they traded “blood for oil,” and that they formed a part of an American neo-imperialist agenda to control oil in the Middle East. The U.S. government, on the other hand, explicitly denied that the wars were about oil, especially in 2003. U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld argued that the war “has nothing to do with oil, literally nothing to do with oil,” a theme echoed by White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer. Political scientists have had remarkably little to say on the issue. Realist analyses of the causes of war, even those that speciªcally highlight the ability of states to acquire or extract resources, tend to say very little about oil and energy. Among the few scholars who do focus on the issue, there is little agreement. Some argue that “resource wars” are frequent and that oil plays a major causal role. Others cast doubt on the importance of such wars, pointing to the lack of systematic evidence. Policy analysts tend to focus narrowly on “energy security” as defined by reliable access to fuel supplies, while missing the broader relationships between energy and security. Systematic analyses of these relationships are rare.

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How Oil Influences U.S. National Security / Charles L. Glaser 

Public ISBD Titre : How Oil Influences U.S. National Security Type de document : document électronique Auteurs : Charles L. Glaser, Auteur Editeur : The MIT Press Année de publication : Fall 2013 Collection : International Security num. Vol. 38, nr. 2 Importance : 36 p Langues : Anglais (eng) Tags : Energie  Pétrole  Etats-Unis  Sécurité Résumé : Scholars and policymakers in the United States commonly worry that a lack of “energy security” is hurting U.S. national security, yet little of their analysis actually links energy requirements with the probability of military conflict. Energy security is usually defined as “the reliable and affordable supply of energy, and most analyses focus on the physical security of oil supplies, the increasing price of oil, and the economic costs of oil disruptions. Their key recommendations call for the United States to reduce oil imports, decrease its vulnerability to oil supply disruptions, and prepare strategies for managing available supplies when disruptions occur. Not linking these energy issues directly to possibilities for international conºict leaves an important gap in our analysis. International conflict lies at the heart of standard conceptions of U.S. national security. Issues that are judged to engage U.S. national security are typically granted top priority on the national agenda, are given entitlement to U.S. resources, and are frequently thought to warrant the use of military force. Thus, without exploring the links between energy requirements and military conflict, we risk conflating U.S. national security with U.S. prosperity, and misjudging the nature of the challenges facing the United States. How Oil Influences U.S. National Security [document électronique] / Charles L. Glaser, Auteur . - [S.l.] : The MIT Press, Fall 2013 . - 36 p. - (International Security; Vol. 38, nr. 2) . Langues : Anglais (eng) Tags : Energie  Pétrole  Etats-Unis  Sécurité Résumé : Scholars and policymakers in the United States commonly worry that a lack of “energy security” is hurting U.S. national security, yet little of their analysis actually links energy requirements with the probability of military conflict. Energy security is usually defined as “the reliable and affordable supply of energy, and most analyses focus on the physical security of oil supplies, the increasing price of oil, and the economic costs of oil disruptions. Their key recommendations call for the United States to reduce oil imports, decrease its vulnerability to oil supply disruptions, and prepare strategies for managing available supplies when disruptions occur. Not linking these energy issues directly to possibilities for international conºict leaves an important gap in our analysis. International conflict lies at the heart of standard conceptions of U.S. national security. Issues that are judged to engage U.S. national security are typically granted top priority on the national agenda, are given entitlement to U.S. resources, and are frequently thought to warrant the use of military force. Thus, without exploring the links between energy requirements and military conflict, we risk conflating U.S. national security with U.S. prosperity, and misjudging the nature of the challenges facing the United States.

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