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The Oil and the Glory: The Pursuit of Empire and Fortune on the Caspian Sea
by Levine, Steven | HC | VeryGood
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller notes
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Weight
- 1 lbs
- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
- No
- ISBN
- 9780375506147
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0375506144
ISBN-13
9780375506147
eBay Product ID (ePID)
59074410
Product Key Features
Book Title
Oil and the Glory : the Pursuit of Empire and Fortune on the Caspian Sea
Number of Pages
496 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2007
Topic
Geopolitics, General, World / Middle Eastern, World, Industries / Energy, Petroleum
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Political Science, Technology & Engineering, Business & Economics, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.6 in
Item Weight
27.4 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2006-101530
Dewey Edition
22
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Decimal
338.2/728209475
Synopsis
Remote, forbidding, and volatile, the Caspian Sea long tantalized the world with its vast oil reserves. But outsiders, blocked by the closed Soviet system, couldn t get to it. Then the Soviet Union collapsed, and a wholesale rush into the region erupted. Along with oilmen, representatives of the world s leading nations flocked to the Caspian for a share of the thirty billion barrels of proven oil reserves at stake, and a tense geopolitical struggle began. The main players were Moscow and Washington the former seeking to retain control of its satellite states, and the latter intent on dislodging Russia to the benefit of the West. "The Oil and the Glory" is the gripping account of this latest phase in the epochal struggle for control of the earth s black gold. Steve LeVine, who was based in the region for "The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times," and "Newsweek," weaves an astonishing tale of high-stakes political gamesmanship, greed, and scandal, set in one of the most opaque corners of the world. In LeVine s telling, the world s energy giants jockey for position in the rich Kazakh and Azeri oilfields, while superpowers seek to gain a strategic foothold in the region and to keep each other in check. At the heart of the story is the contest to build and operate energy pipelines out of the landlocked region, the key to controlling the Caspian and its oil. The oil pipeline that resulted, the longest in the world, is among Washington s greatest foreign policy triumphs in at least a decade and a half. Along the way, LeVine introduces such players as James Giffen, an American moneyman who was also the political fixer for oil companies eager to do business on the Caspian and the broker for Kazakhstan s president and ministers; John Deuss, the flamboyant Dutch oil trader who won big but lost even bigger; Heydar Aliyev, the oft-misunderstood Azeri president who transcended his past as a Soviet Politburo member and masterminded a scheme to loosen Russian control over its former colonies in the Caspian region; and all manner of rogues, adventurers, and others drawn by the irresistible pull of untold riches and the possible final frontier of the fossil-fuel era. The broader story is of the geopolitical questions of the Caspian oil bonanza, such as whether Russia can be a trusted ally and trading partner with the West, and what Washington s entry into this important but chaotic region will mean for its long-term stability.In an intense and suspenseful narrative, " The Oil and the Glory" is the definitive chronicle of events that are understood by few, but whose political and economic impact will be both profound and lasting. "The collapse of the Soviet Union was a big opportunity for Big Oil, whose exploits are detailed in this fast-paced work of political and economic reportage by "Wall Street Journal" energy correspondent LeVine.Westerners had been sniffing for black gold in Russia and its satellites long before the empire disintegrated, notes the author. Averell Harriman, the Harvard-trained scion of nineteenth-century robber baron Edward Harriman, tried his hand at the business before turning to manganese mining, while Armand Hammer became a money launderer for the Bolsheviks, sneaked cash to secret Bolshevik agents in the United States, and profited handsomely as the representative in Russia of some thirty American companies. Hammer set the tone for the Americans who flocked to the Caspian in the first years of the Clinton presidency, which maneuvered for the construction of an east-west oil pipeline that, by reversing the old pattern of Central Asian materials going north to Russia and coming back as products for sale, would favor the West and disfavor Russia. Not a nice way to treat a fledgling democracy, but the oil scouts, of course, considered Russia a rival for Central-Asian resources second only to Iran, with its heartfelt and long-standing enmity toward the United States in the region and abroad. These s
LC Classification Number
HD9576.C372L48 2007
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