The Revenge of Geopolitics
Year: 2014
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: In 1978, the Carter administration abandoned its preoccupation with world order politics and focused US foreign policy on the containment of the Soviet Union. This strategic reorientation turned not on singular events so much as on the frustration of Carter’s attempts to implement his initial world order concept in the face of rising Soviet-American tensions. Meanwhile, Carter’s bid to manage economic interdependence via policy coordination faltered during a second oil shock, which owed to the 1979 Iranian Revolution. Evidently unable to manage the international economic order, the United States and its allies instead began to adapt to the discipline of invigorated globalization. Confronted with the dual challenges of energy interdependence and a resurgent Soviet Union, the Carter administration synthesized a new grand strategy, which centered on the use of US military power to preserve access to the oil fields of the Persian Gulf and keep the world economic order safe for globalization.
Source: Oxford University Press eBooks
Author: Daniel J Sargent
Language: English
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W2482602022