The United States And The Global Struggle For Minerals
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The United States And The Global Struggle For Minerals
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Author : Alfred E. Eckes
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2014-09-10
The United States And The Global Struggle For Minerals written by Alfred E. Eckes and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-10 with History categories.
In 1973–1974 soaring commodity prices and an oil embargo alerted Americans to the twin dangers of resource exhaustion and dependence on unreliable foreign materials suppliers. This period seemed to mark a watershed in history as the United States shifted from the era of relative resource abundance to relative materials scarcity. Alfred E. Eckes’s comprehensive study shows that resource depletion and supply dislocations are not concerns unique to the 1970s. Since 1914, the quest for secure and stable supplies of industrial materials has been an important underlying theme of international relations and American diplomacy. Although the United States has been blessed with a diversified materials base, it has pursued a minerals strategy designed to exploit low-cost, high-quality ores abroad. Eckes demonstrates how this policy has led to official protection for overseas private investments, involving a role for the Central Intelligence Agency. Some modern historians have neglected the importance of resources in shaping diplomacy and history. This book, based on a vast variety of unutilized archival collections and recently declassified government documents, helps to correct that imbalance. In the process it illuminates an important and still timely aspect of America’s global interests.
The United States And The Global Struggle For Minerals
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Author : Alfred Edwards Eckes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
The United States And The Global Struggle For Minerals written by Alfred Edwards Eckes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with categories.
Terminus
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Author : Stuart Rollo
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2023-10-31
Terminus written by Stuart Rollo and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-31 with History categories.
"A new interpretation of how American foreign and strategic policy has, from the time of the Revolution, been shaped by economic and political concerns about China"--
The Global Interior
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Author : Megan Black
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2018-10-01
The Global Interior written by Megan Black and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-01 with History categories.
Megan Black argues that the U.S. Department of the Interior, known for managing domestic natural resources and operating public parks, constantly supports and projects American power abroad. In the guise of sharing expertise globally, Interior has helped the U.S. maintain key benefits of empire without the burden of playing the imperialist villain.
Tungsten In Peace And War 1918 1946
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Author : Ronald H. Limbaugh
language : en
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Release Date : 2010-09-28
Tungsten In Peace And War 1918 1946 written by Ronald H. Limbaugh and has been published by University of Nevada Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-28 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Tungsten is a rare ferrous metal whose ability to form molecular compounds with other elements has made it one of the essential elements in steelmaking, electronics, and various military technologies. This is the first comprehensive study of the use of tungsten and its role in modern technology, politics, and international trade. The book combines a detailed general overview of tungsten’s uses in science and technology with a history of tungsten mining in the U.S. and elsewhere; international competition for tungsten supplies, especially between the two world wars of the twentieth century; and the complex national and international politics involved in supporting and protecting the U.S. tungsten supply and tungsten-mining industry. Tungsten in Peace and War, 1918–1946 is a significant addition to the history of technology and a revelation of the complex role that tungsten and other critical metals play in national and international politics and in the world economy.
Planning War Pursuing Peace
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Author : Paul A. C. Koistinen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Planning War Pursuing Peace written by Paul A. C. Koistinen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Business & Economics categories.
The third volume in a magisterial five-volume study of the political economy of American warfare.
Want Waste Or War
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Author : Philip Andrews-Speed
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-11-13
Want Waste Or War written by Philip Andrews-Speed and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-13 with Political Science categories.
In addition to environmental change, the structure and trends of global politics and the economy are also changing as more countries join the ranks of the world’s largest economies with their resource-intensive patterns. The nexus approach, conceptualized as attention to resource connections and their governance ramifications, calls attention to the sustainability of contemporary consumer resource use, lifestyles and supply chains. This book sets out an analytical framework for understanding these nexus issues and the related governance challenges and opportunities. It sheds light on the resource nexus in three realms: markets, interstate relations and local human security. These three realms are the organizing principle of three chapters, before the analysis turns to crosscutting case studies including shale gas, migration, lifestyle changes and resource efficiency, nitrogen fertilizer and food systems, water and the Nile Basin, climate change and security and defense spending. The key issues revolve around competition and conflict over finite natural resources. The authors highlight opportunities to improve both the understanding of nexus challenges and their governance. They critically discuss a global governance approach versus polycentric and multilevel approaches and the lack of those dimensions in many theories of international relations.
Energy Abstracts For Policy Analysis
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984
Energy Abstracts For Policy Analysis written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Power resources categories.
Invisible And Inaudible In Washington
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Author : Edelgard Mahant
language : en
Publisher: UBC Press
Release Date : 2011-11-01
Invisible And Inaudible In Washington written by Edelgard Mahant and has been published by UBC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-01 with Political Science categories.
Edelgard Mahant and Graeme Mount examine details of White House policy from 1945 to the 1980s to assess the extent to which the United States could be said to have had a Canada policy. They challenge the popular nationalist view that Canada has been treated as peripheral and dependent, but also counter the opposing view that Washington has respected Canadian advice and benefitted from it. Instead, they argue that for the most part Canada has mattered little in Washington and that America's Canada policy is largely an ad hoc affair.
Nature At War
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Author : Thomas Robertson
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2020-04-02
Nature At War written by Thomas Robertson and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-02 with History categories.
"World War II was the largest and most destructive conflict in human history. It was an existential struggle that pitted irreconcilable political systems and ideologies against one another across the globe in a decade of violence unlike any other. There is little doubt today that the United States had to engage in the fighting, especially after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. The conflict was, in the words of historians Allan Millett and Williamson Murray, "a war to be won." As the world's largest industrial power, the United States put forth a supreme effort to produce the weapons, munitions, and military formations essential to achieving victory. When the war finally ended, the finale signaled by atomic mushroom clouds over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, upwards of 60 million people had perished in the inferno. Of course, the human toll represented only part of the devastation; global environments also suffered greatly. The growth and devastation of the Second World War significantly changed American landscapes as well. The war created or significantly expanded a number of industries, put land to new uses, spurred urbanization, and left a legacy of pollution that would in time create a new term: Superfund site"--