Crude Ecology: Technology and the Politics of Dissent in Saudi Arabia
Crude Ecology: Technology and the Politics of Dissent in Saudi Arabia
This chapter scrutinizes the relations between the United States and Saudi Arabia centering around those two invaluable resources of the desert kingdom: Oil and water. This is done in the backdrop of the Shi’i uprising of 1979 against the Saudi Arabian authority for allowing the US—a strong Saudi ally since World War II—to deplete the local natural resources of Al-Hasa and devastating local communities. The chapter also illustrates how the Cold War precipitated profound political, social, and environmental changed that “took place beneath the surface of state-to-state relations.”
Keywords: United States, Saudi Arabia, oil, water, Shi’i uprising, 1979
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