United States Foreign Oil Policy Since World War I: For Profits and Security, Second Edition - Hardcover

Randall, Stephen J.

9780773529229: United States Foreign Oil Policy Since World War I: For Profits and Security, Second Edition

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0773529225 ISBN 13: 9780773529229

Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005

Through market excesses and shortages, complicated by periodic anxiety over the exhaustion of fossil fuel sources, balancing the international quest for oil with reduction of dependence on foreign oil has been a persistent but elusive goal for U.S. governments. United States Foreign Oil Policy since World War I offers a comprehensive analysis of the evolution of American global oil policy from the administration of Woodrow Wilson to George W. Bush's current regime.Stephen Randall demonstrates that U.S. foreign oil policy since World War I has been consistently based on ensuring an adequate supply of oil and oil products at reasonable prices to meet the industrial and military needs of American society. The result has been an ongoing search for energy security that has taken the United States into regions of the world where its national security interests would not otherwise have been at stake, even at the height of the Cold War.

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About the Author:

Stephen J. Randall is dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, and professor of history, University of Calgary, and the author of many books, including Canada and the United States: Ambivalent Allies.

Review:

"Essential reading for any student of the history of U.S. foreign oil policy." Canadian Journal of History

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