17. THE CASPIAN BETWEEN CONFLICT AND COOPERATION

Abstract

In its efforts to secure the unipolar New World Order and its continued dominance of the system, the United States considered it paramount to establish control over major oil resources (the Persian Gulf and the Caspian Sea). In the Persian Gulf, the United States established successfully a substantial military presence. In the Caspian Sea, American oil and gas companies signed so many energy exploration, exploitation and exportation agreements that they gave Washington a seemingly legitimate claim of real interest in that region. By planning to move its Encerlik military base (in Turkey) to Abshuran (in the Azerbaijan Republic), and by adding the Russian Federation to NATO’s central committee, the United States enabled eastward expansion of NATO to the Caspian Sea.

Citation

Mojtahed-Zadeh, P. (2005), "17. THE CASPIAN BETWEEN CONFLICT AND COOPERATION", Intriligator, M.D., Nikitin, A.I. and Tehranian, M. (Ed.) Eurasia (Contributions to Conflict Management, Peace Economics and Development, Vol. 1), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 179-194. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1572-8323(04)01017-3