Roberto Cantoni

Oil Exploration, Diplomacy, and Security in the Early Cold War

The Enemy Underground

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The importance of oil for national military-industrial complexes appeared more clearly than ever in the Cold War. This volume argues that the confidential acquisition of geoscientific knowledge was paramount for states, not only to provide for their own energy needs, but also to buttress national economic and geostrategic interests and protect energy security.By investigating the postwar rebuilding and expansion of French and Italian oil industries from the second half of the 1940s to the early 1960s, this book shows how successive administrations in those countries devised strategies of oil exploration and transport, aiming at achieving a hi… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-315-53152-6
EAN: 9781315531526
Produktnummer: 25387983
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Seitenangabe: 308 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 3'532 KB
Abbildungen: 3 schwarz-weiße Fotos, 16 schwarz-weiße Zeichnungen, 1 schwarz-weiße Tabellen

Über den Autor

Roberto Cantoni is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow within the SecurityStudies Chair at CERI, Sciences Po, and an Associate Researcher atLATTS-IFRIS, France. In 2014 he defended his PhD on oil exploration,diplomacy and security at the University of Manchester, UK. In the sameyear he won the Society for the History of Technology's Levinson Prize. Hecurrently works on the politics of epistemic vulnerability in the nuclear age.