Energy and international war from Babylon to Baghdad and beyond
"Will international wars where energy resources play a central role continue to hold sway over life and death for industrialized nations, or is this a transient phase in the evolution of industrial societies? This book answers this question by tracing the history of energy and conflict from ant...
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| Language: | English |
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New Jersey
World Scientific
2008
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| Series: | World Scientific series on energy and resource economics,
v. 6 |
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Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. From Hammurabi to Napoleon
- Just a commodity
- Slaves, gold, and silver
- Sources of conflict until the concert of Europe
- pt. 2. Coal and non-energy minerals
- Steamer coal in the colonial era
- Franco-Prussian War sets the stage
- Coal and iron in the Great War
- Coal in Asia before WWII
- Coal, steel, customs, and the EU
- Conflict over other solid mineral resources
- An end to cross-border warfare over solid minerals?
- pt. 3. Oil
- Oil and commerce
- Oil from WWI to WWII
- Oil and World War II
- Before the Iran-Iraq War
- Iran and Iraq
- Gulf War I
- Sanctions and inspections
- Iraq after 9/11/01
- Oil and war
- pt. 4. Uranium, natural gas, and renewables
- France and uranium
- French neocolonialism in Africa
- Natural gas resources and transport
- Liquefied natural gas and security developments
- Hydropower
- Other renewable resources
- It's about oil
- pt. 5. The future
- Troubled products
- Uncoordinated consumers
- Spoilers
- Transition to sustainability