Energy & Security in the Industrializing World

viii, 211, [5] pages. Tables. Figures. Notes. Index. DJ has edge wear, tears, chips, and soiling. With the oversupply of oil on world markets and the fall in international oil prices from $32-41 per barrel in 1980 to mid-1989 levels of $15-20 per barrel, the international energy crisis that followed the 1973 Arab-Israeli war appears to have passed. The world has shifted from devising strategies of crisis management to strategies-albeit rapidly fading-for avoiding similar crises in the future. Such were the lessons learned from the sustained energy crisis of the 1970s, which severely affected both the industrialized and developing countries for almost a decade. In the aftermath of the oil shocks of the 1970s, the world nexus among energy, economy, and security is indisputable. The oil crisis elicited a stream of scholarship addressing the implications, with attention focused on the United States and its OECD allies. To the extent that Lesser Developed Countries and newly industrializing nations were examined, they usually appeared in aggregate data rather than as case studies. The chapters have reviewed a unique conglomeration of such nations: India, Pakistan, South Korea, Taiwan, Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, and South Africa. This was written under the auspices of the Center for International and Strategic Affairs, University of California, Los Angeles. Raju G. C. Thomas is a Professor Emeritus of Political Science. Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1976. He specializes in international and transnational security issues. He is the Allis-Chalmers Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Marquette University. He was educated at the London School of Economics (LSE), the University of Southern California (USC), and the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) from where he obtained his Ph.D. He has advised the US Department of State, the US Department of Defense, the US Defense Intelligence Agency, the Central Intelligence Agency, the British Ministry of Defense, and the Israeli Ministry of Defense. Bennett Ramberg (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, J.D. UCLA), is a nationally recognized expert on international issues. Over the years, he has been a foreign policy analyst and/or consultant to the Department of State, U.S. Senate, and the Henry Stimson Center. His academic appointments have included positions at Princeton, Stanford, and UCLA.…