The Politics of International Oil
- Gov 365P/MES 322K: Classes 11 and 12
The news -
from last time:
- "de-integration" of the industry (Robert Mabro
reading - (Abel's Course Pack, page 26)
- US hegemony:
Oil and
Power: the Saudi-American oil regime
(1985- )
- Brzezinski's warning: spreading apprhension of
a unilateralist America
- dilemmas of alliance management: the EU and
USA: Kyoto, International Criminal Court, Iraq, Israel - a new EU
relationship with the Middle East, Latin America? Or US and EU to
work together?
- The geopolitics of oil
- The Middle East: What is to be done with
the "Global Balkans"?
- Brzezinski: "The combination of oil and
volatility gives the US no choice...an awesome challenge in
helping to sustain some degree of stability among precarious
states inhabited by increasingly politically restless, socially
aroused, and religiously inflamed people" (The Choice, p. 60)
Turkey as key
NATO ally? Kurdistan. Israel? but Palestine issue
- cf. Mearsheimer
and Walt - Israel an ally or embarrasment? Lebanon summer
2006.
- India? but
Pakistan and Afghanistan....
- EU and Japan
common interests and strategies with USA?
- China: threat or partner?
- partner re North Korea? - and Iran a rising
source of oil (but not exactly displacing Japan just yet!) - with
big investments that might trigger US ILSA (Iran Libya
Sanctions Act of 1996, due to expire 2001 but renewed until
2006) sanctions??
- CNOOC and UNOCAL - 2005 failed acquisition
(Chevron got Unocal with a lower bid)
- Saudi
Arabia - downstream integration with
oil refineries - and Sinopec's "political" 2004 nonasociated
gas deal to get a foot in the upstream door.
- Sudan
- Helsinki style (Organization for Security
and Cooperation in Europe - OSCE)
security arrangement for the region?
- What is the future of Iraqi
oil?
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Oct. 12, 2009
- Department
of Government, University of
Texas at Austin.
- Questions, Comments, and Suggestions to
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