From Value to Violence : Connecting Oil and War -- Explaining the Oil Wars Myth : Mad Max and El Dorado -- Why Classic Oil Wars Do Not Pay -- Searching for Classic Oil Wars -- Red Herrings : The Chaco Wars and Iran-Iraq -- Oil Spats : The Falkland/Malvinas Islands Dispute -- Oil Campaigns : World War II -- Oil Gambit : Iraq's Invasion of Kuwait
Summary:
"The Oil Wars Myth challenges the popular belief that countries fight wars for oil resources by identifying overlooked obstacles to these conflicts and reexamining the presumed petroleum motives for many of the twentieth century's major international wars"-- Provided by publisher.
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