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Emily Meierding has studied history and political science. She wrote her first book thinking she would prove that a number of wars have been started over oil and found the opposite. We spoke about the book and the research she did for it.
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0:47 – Emily talks about how she got into writing on oil and international wars.
1:33 – Emily talks about the wars she looking into including WWII and the Gulf War. She looked at conflicts from 1912 to 2010.
3:35 – Emily talks about Japan and WWII and other cases where oil was a goal versus other factors.
6:20 – Emily talks about the Falklands War.
7:59 – Emily talks about conflict in 1912 and on.
9:10 – Emily talks about how WWI affected government ideas about oil and war.
11:29 – Emily talks about peacetime activities to ensure energy security.
12:41 – Emily talks about US goals in the Iraq War.
14:56 – Emily talks about how she divided wars into four categories in relation to oil.
19:44 – Emily talks about Saddam going to war for survival.
20:30 – Emily talks about the Iran-Iraq war.
22:09 – Emily talks about Saudi Arabia and disputes with Yemen.
23:13 – Emily talks about African wars and oil.
25:01 – Emily talks about the influence of oil companies in war.
27:55 – Emily talks about why the wars for oil myth exists and persists.
31:57 – Emily talks about what she used for her research.
33:02 – Emily talks about some work she did in Africa.
34:42 – Emily talks about Iraq and the invasion of Kuwait.
39:11 – Emily talks about her strong interest in the subject matter.
43:58 – Emily talks about the [prevalence] strength of the oil myth over time.
45:37 – Emily talks about US plans to invade Saudi Arabia during the 70s oil crisis.
49:45 – Emily is on twitter @emeierding and on emilymeierding.net
Links of interest
https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501748288/the-oil-wars-myth/
http://emilymeierding.net/Welcome.html
https://twitter.com/emeierding
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