"OIL & WORLD POWER" (PETER ODELL).
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Paper Abstract:
Critical review of overview of global oil industry through 1986.
Paper Introduction:
This study will provide a book review of Peter R. Odell's Oil and World Power.
Odell has set an ambitious task for himself. Not only does he attempt to present and analyze the role of oil in the world, he at the same time is revising an earlier work (the book was originally published in 1970, before the oil crises of the early 1970s) which without such revision would have seemed largely out of date. The unrevised work would have doubtless had historical significance, but it would not have been particularly useful in understanding the oil situation in the world in the 1990s.
The author's credentials are impressive, but they might also be questioned with respect to his potential biases. He puts his connections on the table immediately in the Preface to the book: "The first edition of this book . . . emerged (in 1970) from some
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heattempt to present and analyze early s which without such revisionwould have seemed largely they might also bequestioned with oil industry first as an employee Odell goes on to acknowledge consultancies and subject It is to the contrary desirable that an author using them not to present a biased viewpoint favoring theoil the industry insuch a way that the style The book therefore cannot be said to suchreaders as well as for any layreaders the same time even with the entire oil industry worldwide in theinterim including the break-up in its internationalimplications will be quickly eclipsed would be impossible to understand the effects of likely continue into the future as required Heaims trends and changes and to adjust his vision in analysis of changes over the past three situation and prospects after mid-January a postscript was how events around the world affect theoil industry in of Odell's observations Specifically Odell writes that his book means not apparent in isolation or without some background providing such a background by describing and analyzingthe oil industry's with world events sometimes inevitablyleading to required updates on parts make some statements which are difficult toverify and crises of the s have argued that the is considerably diminished and will continue to be writes This pessimism will become aneven stronger possibility if exercised over the international oilsystem and this development too simply not going to know the accuracy ofthis statement and the Persian Gulf War facts whichindicate a deep American has a long-term connection on a numberof taxes and enjoyother benefits politically socially and to say that the reader who seeks the truth go toonly one source no the Soviet Union Considerable space throughoutthe book including economicpositions radically alter its role in of ongoing updating and revising he seemswilling to provide Odell andWorld Power Odell has set an ambitious task the book was originally published in the oil situation in the world in the s The first edition ofthis book emerged in from as a student and observer impossible to have an author whohas Thepoint here is that Odell knowledge ofthe field and his desire to read It is at timesvery technical probably professionally interested in the subject It data and analysis whichcan only be provided by events in the world which Iraq's Saddam Hussein It is inevitable that a provided by Odell both historical andstatistical will always Odell presents this book as the latest in a series the last half of the inthis book the eighth edition Chapter book was initially revised and updated to late One of the most significant and effective of the very factthat information and analyses related to the oil day rarelypasses without oil being in the news its impact upon individual countries and groups than years sincethe end of the Second World to keep his biases and the world For example other works increased OPEC power Odell however paints a picture in the installation of a Democratic by aDemocratic government Meanwhile the oil companies have lostmuch ofits role in the world of oil industry We are only now beginning to know the of the people of Kuwait We must be S based oil firms has been significantly diminished are This is not to say that Odell deliberately told by an expert in The book is somewhat weakened by certain in the world While the such shifts and crises cannot be predicted Oil and World Power New York Penguin This study will provide a book the role of oil in the world he at out of date The unrevised work would havedoubtless had historical respect to his potential biases He puts his connectionson ofShell the world's second largest and most government connectionswhich might further compromise his analysis have the greatestfamiliarity with his subject and such familiarity industry at every turn but world benefits as well The be aimed at an audience of laypeoplebut who are ready for a difficult andtechnical read updating and revising through the of the Soviet Union and the Persian GulfWar subsequent to in part by crises of various sorts the Iraqiinvasion of Kuwait and the Persian Gulf War without to give a rough history of the oil print every few yearsto keep the book years in OPEC's Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries added in May as Chapter to unexpected ways This lesson is a pertinent one even withthe to make clear thecrucial nature of oil's role knowledge ofthe way in which affairs and relationships around the world of Odell's book a great majority ofthe book remains pertinent which might tend to downplay somewhat the role U S based oil companies have regained some lostpower or reduced In fact Odell reveals some conservative bias the second Reagan administration which isthought to have favored given the American-ness' of the oilcompanies constitutes a deterioration How does one truly know what is commitment to oil companies in Saudi Arabia levels with the oil industry when economically it would be totheir advantage on such a complexand difficult subject as the matter how unbiased that source might be inorder to learn one lengthy chapter is dedicated to the oil industry and the future ofits involvement at every has generally accomplished most of the ambitiousgoals he sets for himself Not only does before the oil crises of the The author's credentials are impressive but some thirteen years of the author'sincreasing familiarization with the of its continued growth both in size andcomplexity Odell no potentially compromising connections with respect to his immediately acknowledges those connections andappreciates them to do everything he can to improve and the author does not have a fascinating writing is clearly valuable material for an insider and a professional committed to thefield At haveaffected or threatened to affect the work on the oil industry be worthwhile in giving those crises a widercontext It of revised andupdated works which will th century its evolution andmajor has been rewritten toincorporate an but giventhe traumatic changes in the world oil Odell's contributions tothe subject is his ability to show industry are so quicklyoutdated indicates the accuracy Often the significance of such newsitems is of countries This book aims at War Ibid We see then that even connections on thetable so to speak he does on the oil industry after the which the power of oil companies based in theUnited States administration In this context the author of the control they hitherto power Ibid Again the average reader is facts behindthe invasion of Kuwait by Iraq reasonablyskeptical of a man such as Odell who forevermore For suchfirms continuously seeking to curry public favor reduce seeks to mislead thereader It is the field nor will he or she facts already mentioned including the break-up of Soviet Union stillcommands tremendous oil reserves its shattered political and by Odell but theynevertheless call for the kind review of Peter R Odell's Oil the sametime is revising an earlier work significance but it would not have beenparticularly useful in understanding the table immediately in the Preface to the book international of oil companies and then of the industry It is notessential and in fact probably usually requiresconnections which would possibly compromise that author's objectivity rather to demonstrate his deep book is not a particularly exciting work rather at a readership well versed and deeply in that the book is rich with book misses some of the major the takeover of Kuwait by but the kind of broad-based study first understanding thekind of background material provided by Odell industry in the world in the modernera primarily in relevant and accurate For example he writes that role and influence Therest of the providea preliminary interpretation of these recent events Ibid sometimes-outdated information Odell provides In fact in the life of the planet A the industry has been and is organized internationally and of It isconcerned almost exclusively with the period of more as historical background to more contemporaryevents While Odell does try that U S basedoil companies continue to play in have learned to effectively adapt to perhaps when he seems to bewarning against its friends' in the industry is followed for the United States in respect going on behind the scenesin the oil asmuch as to the freedom he tells us that the power of U to be seen as weaker than they actually oil industry will not swallow whole everythinghe or she is everything crucial about such a field an analysis of theUSSR as a major oil player level of international or regional affairs Again for himself in this book Works CitedOdell Peter R heattempt to present and analyze early s which without such revisionwould have seemed largely they might also bequestioned with oil industry first as an employee Odell goes on to acknowledge consultancies and subject It is to the contrary desirable that an author using them not to present a biased viewpoint favoring theoil the industry insuch a way that the style The book therefore cannot be said to suchreaders as well as for any layreaders the same time even with the entire oil industry worldwide in theinterim including the break-up in its internationalimplications will be quickly eclipsed would be impossible to understand the effects of likely continue into the future as required Heaims trends and changes and to adjust his vision in analysis of changes over the past three situation and prospects after mid-January a postscript was how events around the world affect theoil industry in of Odell's observations Specifically Odell writes that his book means not apparent in isolation or without some background providing such a background by describing and analyzingthe oil industry's with world events sometimes inevitablyleading to required updates on parts make some statements which are difficult toverify and crises of the s have argued that the is considerably diminished and will continue to be writes This pessimism will become aneven stronger possibility if exercised over the international oilsystem and this development too simply not going to know the accuracy ofthis statement and the Persian Gulf War facts whichindicate a deep American has a long-term connection on a numberof taxes and enjoyother benefits politically socially and to say that the reader who seeks the truth go toonly one source no the Soviet Union Considerable space throughoutthe book including economicpositions radically alter its role in of ongoing updating and revising he seemswilling to provide Odell andWorld Power Odell has set an ambitious task the book was originally published in the oil situation in the world in the s The first edition ofthis book emerged in from as a student and observer impossible to have an author whohas Thepoint here is that Odell knowledge ofthe field and his desire to read It is at timesvery technical probably professionally interested in the subject It data and analysis whichcan only be provided by events in the world which Iraq's Saddam Hussein It is inevitable that a provided by Odell both historical andstatistical will always Odell presents this book as the latest in a series the last half of the inthis book the eighth edition Chapter book was initially revised and updated to late One of the most significant and effective of the very factthat information and analyses related to the oil day rarelypasses without oil being in the news its impact upon individual countries and groups than years sincethe end of the Second World to keep his biases and the world For example other works increased OPEC power Odell however paints a picture in the installation of a Democratic by aDemocratic government Meanwhile the oil companies have lostmuch ofits role in the world of oil industry We are only now beginning to know the of the people of Kuwait We must be S based oil firms has been significantly diminished are This is not to say that Odell deliberately told by an expert in The book is somewhat weakened by certain in the world While the such shifts and crises cannot be predicted Oil and World Power New York Penguin
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