Energy and international war : from Babylon to Baghdad and beyond

Call Number: 333.7909 Si642e

ISBN: 9812791582

Author(s): Singer, Clifford

	List of Figures	vii
	List of Tables	ix
	Acknowledgments	xiii
	Preface	xv
Part 1	From Hammurabi to Napoleon	1
1	Just a Commodity	3
2	Slaves, Gold, and Silver	15
3	Sources of Conflict Until the Concert of Europe	29
Part 2	Coal and Non-Energy Minerals	47
4	Steamer Coal in the Colonial Era	49
5	Franco-Prussian War Sets the Stage	59
6	Coal and Iron in the Great War	65
7	Coal in Asia before WWII	77
8	Coal, Steel, Customs, and the EU	83
9	Conflict over other Solid Mineral Resources	89
10	An End to Cross-border Warfare over Solid Minerals?	113
Part 3	Oil	117
11	Oil and Commerce	119
12	Oil from WWI to WWII	129
13	Oil and World War II	139
14	Before the Iran-Iraq War	153
15	Iran and Iraq	161
16	Gulf War I	167
17	Sanctions and Inspections	179
18	Iraq after 9/11/01	191
19	Oil and War	219
Part 4	Uranium, Natural Gas, and Renewables	225
20	France and Uranium	227
21	French Neocolonialism in Africa	241
22	Natural Gas Resources and Transport	249
23	Liquefied Natural Gas and Security Developments	269
24	Hydropower	283
25	Other Renewable Resources	297
26	It's about Oil	309
Part 5	The Future	313
27	Troubled Producers	315
28	Uncoordinated Consumers	327
29	Spoilers	355
30	Transition to Sustainability	371
	Bibliography	383
	Index	421

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