Global Energy Security and American Hegemony

by Doug Stokes and Sam Raphael

Book Overview

This analysis of the United States and energy security examines the close relationship between US military supremacy in oil-rich regions and America's maintenance of global power.

Energy security generally evokes thoughts of American intervention in the Middle East to protect US interests in that region's oil-rich fields. Doug Stokes and Sam Raphael move beyond that framework to consider US actions in Latin America, Central Asia, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801894972
• ISBN13: 9780801894978
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"