Print version: Kelanic, Rosemary A. Black gold and blackmail : oil and great power politics. Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, c2020 230 pages ISBN 9781501748295
Contents // Acknowledgments vii // Introduction: The Ubiquity of Oil 1 // 1. A Theory of Strategic Anticipation 15 // 2. Oil and Military Effectiveness 48 // 3. Qualitative Methods for Testing the Theory 67 // 4. British Vulnerability and the Conquest of Mesopotamia 80 // 5. The Oil Strategies of Nazi Germany 92 // 6. American Efforts to Avoid Vulnerability 115 // 7. Empirical Tests with Fuzzy-Set QCA 159 // Conclusion: Oil and the Future of Great Power Politics 173 // Notes 183 // Index 211