Geopolitics of oil

Book · Tue Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1980

OSTI ID:6815053

This publication, Part 2 of hearings on the geopolitics of oil, covers the testimony given by Dr. Henry Kissinger on July 31, 1980 as part of a political, social, military, and economic assessment of oil price and availability during the 1980s. The committee, in examining the goal of energy independence and its impact on US energy policy, recognizes the foreign policy implications. Dr. Kissinger stresses the pressures that Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) prices and policies have had on developing countries and smaller producers. He outlines the Middle East's political situation in terms of the global balance of power, the balance of moderate and radical forces in the Persian Gulf, and the Arab-Israli conflict. Common action must be established, he suggests, among the industrial democracies in their discussions with the producers if the present situation is to be brought into balance. (DCK)

• OSTI ID: 6815053
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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