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Iraq and the International Oil System: Why America Went to War in the Gulf Stephen C. Pelletière Library of Congress Catalog Number DS79.719P45 256 pages Maps, illustrations Publication date June 1, 2004 Second updated edition Paperback $17.95 ISBN 0-944624-45-6 or ISBN-13 9780944624456
Asserting that the desire to control the Persian Gulf’s oil supply sent the United States to war against Iraq in both 1991 and 2003, this work develops a nuanced argument around that claim. It explains how the Persian Gulf came under the control of a “system” or a cartel—a coercive arrangement designed to ensure benefits to members and deny them to outsiders. The evolution of the oil system in the United States from its roots in Pennsylvania entrepreneurs to the Texas “wildcatters” is traced through the dominance of the oil barons in the Standard Oil era. Further, each United States conflict in Central Asia is analyzed, and the central role of oil in those conflicts is revealed. A new introduction and postscript address the motivations behind the most recent war in Iraq.
If there is one book you can read on the history of the international oil system and how it led up to the wars in Iraq, this is it. Ideal for class adoption. Loaded with facts any professor would want students to be familiar with.
Stephen C. Pelletière was the Central Intelligence Agency’s senior political analyst on Iraq throughout the Iran-Iraq War. In 1988 he became a senior research professor at the U.S. Army War College, Carlisle, Pa. While at the college he produced two of the government’s most influential studies on Iraq – Iraqi Power and U.S. Security in the Middle East and Lessons Learned: The Iran-Iraq War. Dr. Pelletiere got his PhD from the University of California in Berkeley. He studied Arabic on a Center for Arabic Study Abroad (CASA) grant for a year in Cairo. He did his research for his dissertation on Egyptian Nationalism in the Dar Al Kutb in Cairo on a Fulbright. He has published three books on Iraq – The Kurds: An Unstable Element in the Gulf; The Iran-Iraq War: Chaos in a Vacuum, and this volume Iraq and the International Oil System: Why America Went to War in the Gulf. He is currently writing another book under contract for Praeger – American Arms in the Gulf: Wars of Mass Destruction. His most recent publication is “A War Crime Or an Act of War?” The New York Times (January 31, 2003).
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