During the Cold War, what role did oil play in driving western intervention to the Middle East?

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Presentation

Pages :

5 pages

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.doc

Published date :

01/15/2009

Category :

History & geography

Sub category :

Modern history

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Summary :

Introduction.
The Cold War.
1. Oil becoming a major stake for USA.
Western intervention in the Middle East.
1. Conflicts in the Middle East and political instability.
2. The US intervention.
3. The western desire to dominate the Middle East.
Oil crisis at the beginning of the 1970s.
1. Nationalization of the canal.
2. Oil as a weapon for the Middle East.
3. The Kippur war.
Gulf war and Saddam Hussein.
Conclusion.
References.

Abstract

After the Second World war in 1945, a new world order came up: western Europe had to recover from the damages the war caused, and the US and the Soviet Union were competing against each other for power in a cold war period. during this era, lasting up to the collapse of the Soviet Union in December 1991, the middle east began to become a very unstable region due to the creation of the Israeli state in 1948. A traditional definition of the 'middle east area' would include sixteen countries from Iran to Egypt. This core region has been the biggest world oil holder for decades. In this context, it is not surprising to see that the middle east became, during the cold war, the theater of western interventions concerning oil. Indeed, the oil issue became a key and strategic argument, related to the new framework of the international relations.