Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Petroleum Dependency

ISBN-13: 9780141020037 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 288 str.

Michael Klare

Opis

Traces oil's impact on international affairs since World War II, revealing its influence on the Truman, Eisenhower, Nixon and Carter governments. This work shows how America's own wells are drying up as demand increases and warns that by 2010 the US will need to import 60 per cent of its oil.

O autorze

Michael Klare is the author of Rogue States and Nuclear Outlaws, Low Intensity Warfare and Resource Wars. He is the Five College Professor of Program Peace and World Security Studies at Hampshire College in Amherst, and lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.