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Petrodollar warfare : oil, Iraq and the future of the dollar

Title: Petrodollar warfare : oil, Iraq and the future of the dollar / William R. Clark.
Author: Clark, William R. (Analyst)
Publication: Gabriola Island, B.C. : New Society, [2005], ©2005.

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Description

xix, 265 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

"Petrodollar Warfare discusses the crucial shift in US monetary policy during the 1970s away from the gold standard to becoming the monopoly currency for worldwide oil sales, effectively enabling the US to dominate world trade. It then analyses global Peak Oil as an additional driver of US foreign policy and the parallel growth of political fundamentalism in the current US administration. Tracking the emergence of the euro as an important challenger to dollar supremacy, the book pinpoints Hussein's November 2000 switch to selling oil for euros as the defining moment for Iraq and, perhaps - without an immediate change in governance - for the noble American experiment."--BOOK JACKET.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-258) and index.

Contents

Foreword / Jeff Wright -- Ch. 1. The American century : post-World War II period -- Ch. 2. US geostrategy and the Persian Gulf : 1945-2005 -- Ch. 3. Global peak oil : the millennium's greatest challenge -- Ch. 4. Manifest subterfuge : disguising the macroeconomic and geostrategic rationales for war -- Ch. 5. Dollar dilemma : why petrodollar hegemony is unsustainable -- Ch. 6. Saving the American experiment -- Ch. 7. Envisioning progressive global reform in the new century -- Epilogue / Karen Kwiatkowski.

ISBN

0865715149 (pbk.)

OCLC

60798137
ocm60798137
SCSB-5204028

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