Oil, Illiberalism, and War: An Analysis of Energy and Us Foreign Policy

by Andrew T. Price-Smith

Book Overview

An argument that America's addiction to crude oil has driven a foreign policy of intervention and exploitation hidden behind a facade of liberal internationalism.

The United States is addicted to crude oil. In this book, Andrew Price-Smith argues that this addiction has distorted the conduct of American foreign policy in profound and malign ways, resulting in interventionism, exploitation, and other illiberal behaviors that hide behind a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262029065
• ISBN13: 9780262029063
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher