Hitler's quest for oil: The impact of economic considerations on military strategy, 1941–42

Hayward, Joel

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“…What also benefited the United States and the Allies were the massive onshore oil deposits found within the continental United States. Whereas Hitler effectively ran out of oil, the Allies swam to victory on a sea of American oil (Yergin 1992;Hayward 1995). As Yergin noted in his historical study of oil and international power, it was the First World War that focused strategic minds on the future of warfare and geopolitical power: The Great War had made abundantly clear that petroleum had become an essential element in the strategy of nations; and the politicians and bureaucrats, though they had hardly been absent before, would now rush headlong into the center of the struggle, drawn into the competition by a common perception-that the postwar world would require ever-greater quantities of oil for economic prosperity and national power.…”

Section: Neocolonialism the Debt Crisis And Neoliberalismmentioning

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Debt as Power

Muzio¹,

Robbins²

2016

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Section: Neocolonialism the Debt Crisis And Neoliberalismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Debt as Power

Muzio¹,

Robbins²

2016

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“…The first comment is to realize that after World War I, the first mechanized or total war, virtually all military and governing officials realized that oil was essential to "modern warfare and industrial life" (Lewis 1921: 357;Yergin 1991). Difficulties in obtaining oil meant certain defeat as was also reinforced in the slaughter of World War II when Germany and Japan's quest for oil faltered and the Allies drifted to victory on a sea of US oil (Friedrichs 2010;Hayward 1995). The second comment is that while the Soviet Union enlarged its sphere of influence after World War II and used its domestic oil to industrialize, build up its means of destruction and for strategic international purposes, it was the USA and the international oil companies that largely organized the international oil order.…”

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Energy, Capital as Power and World Order

Muzio

2016

The Palgrave Handbook of Critical International Political Economy

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14Until late, the subject of energy and its importance for capitalism and the constitution and reconstitution of world order has been sorely overlooked in the international political economy (IPE) literature. Indeed, only two of the major textbooks in IPE have chapters on energy (Di Muzio and Ovadia 2016). This is also true of the literature known as classical political economy. With few exceptions, the main questions that animated the classics such as the origins of the wealth of nations and the distribution of wealth are somehow disconnected from the production and consumption of energy. Marginal exceptions granted, there is little acknowledgement that the last three centuries of uneven and combined "progress" and "development" have anything to do with the exploitation of coal, oil and natural gas. However, if recent scholarship is any indication, this appears to be changing both within IPE and within other academic fields such as geography, sociology and environmental studies. In this emergent literature, we can find an argument that energy should not be treated as auxiliary to our analysis of the global political economy but essential to understanding and interpreting its emergence, transformations and future trajectories (Di Muzio 2015). Since fossil fuels make up an overwhelming share of global energy production and consumption (see Fig. 14.1) I will mainly concentrate of non-renewable fossil fuels and

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Section: Neocolonialism the Debt Crisis And Neoliberalismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Debt as power

Robbins¹,

Muzio²

2016

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Globalization is widely viewed as a current condition of the world, but there is little engagement with how this changes the way we understand it. The Theory for a Global Age series addresses the impact of globalization on the social sciences and humanities. Each title will focus on a particular theoretical issue or topic of empirical controversy and debate, addressing theory in a more global and interconnected manner. With contributions from scholars across the globe, the series will explore different perspectives to examine globalization from a global viewpoint. True to its global character, the Theory for a Global Age series will be available for online access worldwide via Creative Commons licensing, aiming to stimulate wide debate within academia and beyond.

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Hitler's quest for oil: The impact of economic considerations on military strategy, 1941–42

Cited by 14 publications

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Energy, Capital as Power and World Order

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