A War for Oil? Energy Issues and the Gulf War of 1991 by John Roberts

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This article discusses the energy issues and ramifications of the Gulf War of 1991. The Gulf War radically changed the shape of oil politics and p... (More) This article discusses the energy issues and ramifications of the Gulf War of 1991. The Gulf War radically changed the shape of oil politics and promoted the economic prospects of some key oil producers and retarded those of others. It had severe economic repercussions for Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Kuwait. But while the crisis certainly sparked drastic changes in the geopolitics of oil, was it really an oil crisis? And if it was not an oil crisis, then what role did oil play – and what will be the consequences of the crisis for geopolitics of oil? (This article by John Roberts, “A War for Oil? Energy Issues and the Gulf War of 1991,” was published as Occasional Paper 13. Boulder, Colorado: The International Research Center for Energy and Economic Development, 1991. ISBN 0-918714-28-1). (Less)