America and Middle Eastern oil -- Explaining September 11 : the oil factor -- Rising anti-Americanism in the global audience -- Oil money, terrorist financing, and weapons of mass destruction -- Oil money and hated regimes : fueling terrorism -- The deadly nexus of globalization, oil, and...

Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. America and Middle Eastern Oil -- Part I: Oil and Transnational Terrorism -- 2. Explaining September 11: The Oil Factor -- 3. Rising Anti-Americanism in the Global Audience -- 4. Oil Money,...

Few issues in international affairs and energy security animate thinkers more than the classic topic of hegemony, and the case of the Persian Gulf presents particularly fertile ground for considering this concept. Since the 1970s, the region has undergone tumultuous changes, with dramatic shifts...

"The real story of global oil over the past twenty-five years is not about the spillover effects of Palestinians fighting Israelis, or terrorist attacks on U.S. forces in Saudi Arabia and Yemen, or Iraq's stormy relationship with Kuwait. It is not...