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dc.contributor.authorKelanic, Rosemary A.
dc.date.accessioned2021-10-16T05:32:40Z
dc.date.available2021-10-16T05:32:40Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/51051
dc.description.abstractBlack Gold and Blackmail seeks to explain why great powers adopt such different strategies to protect their oil access from politically motivated disruptions. In extreme cases, such as Imperial Japan in 1941, great powers fought wars to grab oil territory in anticipation of a potential embargo by the Allies; in other instances, such as Germany in the early Nazi period, states chose relatively subdued measures like oil alliances or domestic policies to conserve oil. What accounts for this variation? Fundamentally, it is puzzling that great powers fear oil coercion at all because the global market makes oil sanctions very difficult to enforce. Rosemary A. Kelanic argues that two variables determine what strategy a great power will adopt: the petroleum deficit, which measures how much oil the state produces domestically compared to what it needs for its strategic objectives; and disruptibility, which estimates the susceptibility of a state's oil imports to military interdiction—that is, blockade. Because global markets undercut the effectiveness of oil sanctions, blockade is in practice the only true threat to great power oil access. That, combined with the devastating consequences of oil deprivation to a state's military power, explains why states fear oil coercion deeply despite the adaptive functions of the market. Together, these two variables predict a state's coercive vulnerability, which determines how willing the state will be to accept the costs and risks attendant on various potential strategies. Only those great powers with large deficits and highly disruptible imports will adopt the most extreme strategy: direct control of oil through territorial conquest.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPS International relationsen_US
dc.subject.otherPolitical Science
dc.subject.otherInternational Relations
dc.titleBlack Gold and Blackmail
dc.title.alternativeOil and Great Power Politics
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.7298/mh51-a127
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy06a447d4-1d09-460f-8b1d-3b4b09d64407
oapen.relation.isFundedByb818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9
oapen.relation.isbn9781501749209
oapen.collectionKnowledge Unlatched (KU)
oapen.imprintCornell University Press
oapen.identifierhttps://openresearchlibrary.org/viewer/8677c548-9414-4a26-9dc8-046392f2ef82
oapen.identifier.isbn9781501749209
grantor.number104305


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