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The New Kings of Crude

2014-10-15 Social Science
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Release : 2014-10-15
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis The New Kings of Crude by : Luke Patey

Download or read book The New Kings of Crude written by Luke Patey. This book was released on 2014-10-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past decade, the need for oil in Asia's new industrial powers, China and India, has grown dramatically. The New Kings of Crude takes the reader from the dusty streets of an African capital to Asia's glistening corporate towers to provide a first look at how the world's rising economies established new international oil empires in Sudan, amid one of Africa's longest-running and deadliest civil wars. For over a decade, Sudan fuelled the international rise of Chinese and Indian national oil companies. But the political turmoil surrounding the historic division of Africa's largest country, with the birth of South Sudan, challenged Asia's oil giants to chart a new course. Luke Patey weaves together the stories of hardened oilmen, powerful politicians, rebel fighters, and human rights activists to show how the lure of oil brought China and India into Sudan--only later to ensnare both in the messy politics of a divided country. His book also introduces the reader to the Chinese and Indian oilmen and politicians who were willing to become entangled in an African civil war in the pursuit of the world's most coveted resource. It offers a portrait of the challenges China and India are increasingly facing as emerging powers in the world.

The New Kings of Crude

2014 China
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Release : 2014
Genre : China
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Book Synopsis The New Kings of Crude by : Luke A. Patey

Download or read book The New Kings of Crude written by Luke A. Patey. This book was released on 2014. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Oil Kings

2012-09-11 Business & Economics
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Release : 2012-09-11
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Synopsis The Oil Kings by : Andrew Scott Cooper

Download or read book The Oil Kings written by Andrew Scott Cooper. This book was released on 2012-09-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relying on a rich cache of previously classified notes, transcripts, cables, policy briefs, and memoranda, Andrew Cooper explains how oil drove, even corrupted, American foreign policy during a time when Cold War imperatives still applied, and tells why in the 1970s the U.S. switched its Middle East allegiance from the Shah of Iran to the Saudi royal family. Amid the oil shocks of the early 1970s, there was one man the U.S. could rely on: the Shah of Iran. The Shah sold us oil; we sold him weapons. But the U.S. and other industrialized economies could not tolerate repeated annual double digit increases in oil prices. During the 1976 election campaign, President Gerald Ford decided that he had to find a country that would break the OPEC monopoly and sell the U.S. oil more cheaply. On the advice of Treasury Secretary William Simon -- and against the advice of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger -- Ford made a deal to sell advanced weaponry to the Saudis in exchange for a more moderate price hike in oil. The Shah's economy was destabilized, and disaffected elements mobilized to overthrow him. The U.S. had embarked on a long relationship with the autocratic Saudi kingdom that continues to this day.

Magnificent and Beggar Land

2015-04-02 Political Science
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Release : 2015-04-02
Genre : Political Science
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Book Synopsis Magnificent and Beggar Land by : Ricardo Soares de Oliveira

Download or read book Magnificent and Beggar Land written by Ricardo Soares de Oliveira. This book was released on 2015-04-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magnificent and Beggar Land is a powerful account of fast-changing dynamics in Angola, an important African state that is a key exporter of oil and diamonds and a growing power on the continent. Based on three years of research and extensive first-hand knowledge of Angola, it documents the rise of a major economy and its insertion in the international system since it emerged in 2002 from one of Africa's longest and deadliest civil wars. The government, backed by a strategic alliance with China and working hand in glove with hundreds of thousands of expatriates, many from the former colonial power, Portugal, has pursued an ambitious agenda of state-led national reconstruction. This has resulted in double-digit growth in Sub-Saharan Africa's third largest economy and a state budget in excess of total western aid to the entire continent. Scarred by a history of slave trading, colonial plunder and war, Angolans now aspire to the building of a decent society. How has the regime, led by President José Eduardo dos Santos since 1979, dealt with these challenges, and can it deliver on popular expectations? Soares de Oliveira's book charts the remarkable course the country has taken in recent years.

The Kings of Big Spring

2018-02-06 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2018-02-06
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis The Kings of Big Spring by : Bryan Mealer

Download or read book The Kings of Big Spring written by Bryan Mealer. This book was released on 2018-02-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Texas blood is bond and oil is king.

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