how the U.S., Iran, and Suadi Arabia changed the balance of power in the Middle East Cooper, Andrew Scott Primary Author mixed material bibliography New York 9781439155189 en English

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xi, 530 p. ; 24 cm This is an account of an era we thought we knew: how the US decision in the mid-1970s to choose Saudi Arabia as the dominant oil power in the Mideast ultimately led to the Islamic revolution in Iran, and how oil came to dominate U.S. domestic and international affairs. The author draws on newly declassified documents and interviews with some key figures of the time to show how Nixon, Ford, Kissinger, the CIA, and the State and Treasury departments, as well as the Shah of Iran and the Saudi royal family, maneuvered to control events in the Middle East. He details the secret U.S.-Saudi plan to circumvent OPEC that destabilized the Shah; reveals how close the U.S. came to sending troops into the Persian Gulf to break the Arab oil embargo; and shows how the Ford Administration barely averted a European debt crisis that could have triggered a financial catastrophe in the U.S. Politics and Government Petroleum Industry and Trade Diplomatic relations United States Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries Iran Saudi Arabia 327.73055 e-Library Universitas Pertamina Be Global Leader 327.73055 COO o 5350/PUP/2017 Perpustakaan Universitas Pertamina 327.73055 COO o c.1 The_Oil_Kings.jpg.jpg 1788 2018-03-29 14:29:58 2018-03-29 14:30:49 machine generated Geological Engineering Petroleum Engineering Mechanical Engineering Management International Relations