| 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
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| 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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