A crude bargain: Great powers, oil states, and petro-alignment

• Main Author: KIM, Inwook
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2019
• Subjects: oil; petro-alignment; oil market; geopolitics; asymmetric alliance; grand strategy; energy security; Saudi Arabia; US foreign policy; Oil, Gas, and Mineral Law; Political Science
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2963; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4220/viewcontent/101080_0963641220191662478.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Petro-alignment, a quid pro quo arrangement whereby great powers offer security in exchange for oil states’ friendly oil policies, is a widely used and yet undertheorized energy security strategy. One consequential aspect of this exchange is that great powers choose different levels of security comm...