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

The Enemy Underground

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

AvRoberto Cantoni

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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 higher degree of energy autonomy and setting up powerful oil agencies that could implement those strategies. However, both within and outside their national territories, these two European countries had to confront the new Cold War balances and the interests of the two superpowers.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-06-30
Mått156 x 234 x 17 mm
Vikt453 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieRoutledge Studies in Modern European History
Antal sidor308
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9780367275297

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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.

"What is "petroleum" if not the quintessential diplomacy device of the last one hundred years? Cantoni shows that its exploration mobilized Western intelligence agents; permits to extract cast the struggle for post-colonial independence of key African states; and piping technologies unnerved NATO officials at the height of the Cold War. Admirably researched, this book takes the reader on an amazing journey through the underworld of surveillance operations and secret negotiations that the global quest for controlling the "black gold" defined; a compelling study for anyone interested in twentieth-century history and its international dimensions."Simone Turchetti, The University of Manchester, UK