The Oil Wars Myth : Petroleum and the Causes of International Conflict /
Emily Meierding.
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- Book collections on Project MUSE. .
From Value to Violence : Connecting Oil and War -- Explaining the Oil Wars Myth : Mad Max and El Dorado -- Why Classic Oil Wars Don't Pay -- Searching for Classic Oil Wars -- Red Herrings : The Chaco and Iran-Iraq Wars -- Oil Spats : The Falkland/Malvinas Islands Dispute -- Oil Campaigns : World War II -- Oil Gambit : Iraq's Invasion of Kuwait
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"The Oil Wars Myth challenges the popular belief that countries fight wars for oil resources by identifying overlooked obstacles to these conflicts and reexamining the presumed petroleum motives for many of the twentieth century's major international wars"--
9781501748950
World politics. War--Causes. Politics and war. Petroleum industry and trade--Political aspects. Politics and war. War--Causes. World politics--20th century. Petroleum industry and trade--Political aspects--History--20th century.