Reasons of State: Oil Politics and the Capacities of American Government

G. John Ikenberry

Published by Cornell University Press 1988

Reasons of State

Oil Politics and the Capacities of American Government

G. John Ikenberry
Funded by: National Endowment for the Humanities Open Book Program

In the series Cornell Studies in Political Economy

https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501726330

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About this book

In this lucid and theoretically sophisticated book, G. John Ikenberry focuses on the oil price shocks of 1973–74 and 1979, which placed extraordinary new burdens on governments worldwide and particularly on that of the United States. Reasons of State examines the response of the United States to these and other challenges and identifies both the capacities of the American state to deal with rapid international political and economic change and the limitations that constrain national policy.

Author / Editor information

G. John Ikenberry is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University in the Department of Politics and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He is coeditor of three other books from Cornell University Press: End of the West?: Crisis and Change in the Atlantic Order, The State and American Foreign Economic Policy, and America Unrivaled: The Future of the Balance of Power. He is the author of Liberal Leviathan: The Origins, Crisis, and Transformation of the American System and After Victory: Institutions, Strategic Restraint, and the Rebuilding of Order after Major Wars (winner of the 2002 Schroeder-Jervis Award given by the American Political Science Association).

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Reasons of State is a bold and provocative book rich in ideas and insights. The analysis and scholarship are detailed and careful. Ikenberry tells a fascinating story that should provoke and stimulate readers from several disciplines.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface Open Access Download PDF	ix
1. The Oil Shocks and State Responses Open Access Download PDF	1
2. Explaining Energy Adjustment Policy Open Access Download PDF	21
3. The American State and Energy Policies Open Access Download PDF	48
4. The Limits of International Cooperation Open Access Download PDF	80
5. The Limits of State Building Open Access Download PDF	104
6. The Limits of Technology and Spending Open Access Download PDF	138
7. The Market as State Strategy Open Access Download PDF	165
8. Reasons of State Open Access Download PDF	191
Index Open Access Download PDF	209

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 234
Keywords: General Economics; Political Science & Political History

eBook

Published: March 5, 2018
ISBN: 9781501726330