Global Energy Security and American Hegemony

摘要: This analysis of the United States and energy security examines close relationship between US military supremacy in oil-rich regions America's maintenance global power. Energy generally evokes thoughts American intervention Middle East to protect interests that region's fields. Doug Stokes Sam Raphael move beyond framework consider actions Latin America, Central Asia, Africa. Drawing on State Defense Department records other primary sources previous scholarship, they show how foreign policy since World War II has sought maintain a regime supports nation's allies while maintaining hegemony. Stokes explain energy-rich states insulates stabilizes those nations' transnationally oriented actors political economies why oil diversification strategy strengthens country's position against rivals capitalist system. They argue counterinsurgency aid types coercive statecraft recipient from an array potentially revolutionary armed unarmed internal social forces, thereby securing supplies nations deemed strategically important or its allies. Clear accessible, this cutting-edge contemporary will engage scholars international relations as well policymakers grappling with importance today's world.