Premium
Pushing on: petrolism and the statecraft of oil
Author(s) -
RICE STIAN,
TYNER JAMES
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
the geographical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.071
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1475-4959
pISSN - 0016-7398
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-4959.2011.00417.x
Subject(s) - militarism , energy security , petroleum , dependency (uml) , political science , foreign policy , energy (signal processing) , political economy , economics , law , politics , geology , engineering , physics , renewable energy , paleontology , electrical engineering , systems engineering , quantum mechanics
Despite expanded debate on energy security, the American relationship to foreign oil in the ten years since 9/11 has remained unchanged. We argue that energy policy has languished for three reasons: (1) the creation of a fake ‘addiction’ discourse, (2) the real petroleum dependency of American militarism, and (3) the importance of oil as a weapon in American statecraft.