Full Title: "A Century of War ~ Anglo-American Oil Politics And The New World Order"
Pluto Press, London - Ann Arbor MI
Revised Edition - 1992, updated in 2004
270 pages + notes and appendices
ISBN-13: 978-0-7453-2309-1
When George HW Bush commented in his first SOTU address that he was "ushering in a New World Order" I seriously doubt most of the American public listening to him understood the real significance of that statement, nor its implications. A Century Of War lays it all out, from beginning to end, in a clear and easy to read form.
From the Preface to the 2004 updated version of A Century of War:
"The fall of the Berlin Wall at the end of the 1980s and the collapse of the Soviet Union were hailed by many as the dawn of a new era of peace and prosperity. Some authors, such as Francis Fukuyama, proclaimed it as the beginning of the end of history. The entire world seemed to open to economic cooperation, to investment, to democratic ideas. Trade barriers fell, doors opened. Little more than a decade later, the optimism was long forgotten as the outlines of a very different world were emerging.
As this preface to the new edition of A Century Of War was written, the world was mired in a bloody series of wars, the most serious being in Iraq. It soon became clear to the world that the decision of President George W Bush to go to war against Iraq had little to do with the threat of weapons of mass destruction. It was also increasingly clear that the US agenda in Iraq had little to do with the proclaimed effort to 'bring democracy' to a once despotic Iraq. That naturally raised in many minds the question of why the United States put so much of its credibility, of its reputation, of what some call its soft power, at risk, for apparently so little. The answer to the question was a short one: it was about oil. But not about oil in the simple sense many believed. This war was not an issue of corporate greed. It was about power, and geopolitical power above all."
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