A Century of War Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order

This book is a gripping account of the murky world of the international oil industry and its role in world politics.


Scandals about oil are familiar to most of us. From George W. Bush's election victory to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, US politics and oil enjoy a controversially close relationship. The US economy relies upon the cheap and unlimited supply of this single fuel.


William Engdahl takes the reader through a history of the oil industry's grip on the world economy. His revelations are startling. Moving from the post-World War I period up to the present day, he shows how oil is ? and has always been ? the motivating factor in international policy and conflicts.


Shedding light on the 1970s oil shocks and the grand strategy of Washington after the end of the Cold War, Engdahl presents a convincing case that geopolitics and oil were behind the collapse of the Soviet Union, the breakup of Yugoslavia, the rise and fall of the Taliban. He reveals evidence to show that the US and UK decision to go to war in Iraq was not simply an issue of corporate greed. It was a strategic move to control the world economy for the following half century or more.

Foreword


1. The Three Pillars of the British Empire


2. The Lines are Drawn: Germany and the Geopolitics of the Great War


3. A Global Fight for Control of Petroleum Begins


4. Oil Becomes the Weapon, the Near East the Battleground


5. Combined & Conflicting Goals: U.S. rivals Britain


6. The Anglo-Americans Close Ranks


7. Oil and a New World Order of Bretton Woods


8. A Sterling Crisis and the Adenauer-de Gaulle Threat


9. Running the world economy in reverse: Who made the 1970's oil shocks?


10. Europe, Japan and a Response to the Oil Shock


11. Imposing the New World Order


12. From Evil Empire to the Axis of Evil


13. A New Millennium for Oil Geopolitics


Appendices


Index of names