TY - BOOK AU - Meierding,Emily ED - Project Muse. TI - The Oil Wars Myth : : Petroleum and the Causes of International Conflict / SN - 9781501748950 PY - 2020/// CY - Ithaca PB - Cornell University Press KW - World politics KW - fast KW - War KW - Causes KW - Politics and war KW - Petroleum industry and trade KW - Political aspects KW - 20th century KW - History KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - 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; Open Access N2 - "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"-- UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/84316/ ER -