Oil money Middle East petrodollars and the transformation of US empire, 1967-1988
David M. Wight
- 1 online resource (xii, 347 pages) illustrations
- The United States in the world .
Oil, US empire, and the Middle East -- The road to the oil shock -- Pursuing petrodollar interdependence -- The triangle to the Nile -- The petrodollar economy -- Visions of petrodollar promise and peril -- Reform and revolt -- Revolution and invasions -- Recoveries and crises -- End of an era
"History of how international petrodollar flows transformed the role of the Middle East within the global empire of the United States during the 1970s and 1980s, both increasing Middle East-US cooperation and generating cultural and political backlashes, with particular focus on US relations with Egypt, Iran, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia"--