 | Crude Awakenings: Global Oil Security and American Foreign Policy Subjects: Middle East -- Foreign relations -- United States; United States -- Foreign relations -- Middle East; Saudi Arabia -- Politics and government -- 1932-; Petroleum industry and trade -- Middle East; Security International; "The real story of global oil over the past twenty-five years is not about the spillover effects of Palestinians fighting Israelis, or terrorist attacks on U.S. forces in Saudi Arabia and Yemen, or Iraq's stormy relationship with Kuwait. It is not... Steve A. Yetiv is University Professor of Political Science and International Studies at Old Dominion University. He is the author of several books, including The Petroleum Triangle: Oil, Globalization, and Terror and Crude Awakenings: Global Oil Security and American Foreign Policy , both from Cornell, and The Absence of Grand Strategy: U.S. Foreign Policy Toward the Persian Gulf (1972-2005) . Yetiv has been a consultant to the U.S. Department of Defense, the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. General Accounting Office, and CNN International. |
