Oil Price Manipulation as a Geoeconomic Weapon Against the Soviet Union / Russia

نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی

نویسندگان

1 Associate Professor at the Department of Political Geography, Development and Regional Studies, University of Pecs, Hungary.

2 PhD Student at the Doctoral School of Earth Sciences – Geopolitical Program, Department of Political Geography, Development and Regional Studies, University of Pecs, Hungary.

چکیده

In modern geopolitics economic warfare has become more and more significant. This paper examines a special segment of economic warfare: can oil price be manipulated and serve as an effective geopolitical (or geoeconomic) weapon, and if that is the case, under what conditions? This article demonstrates that the United States and its allies (mainly Saudi Arabia)—when certain economic, technological, and political conditions are fulfilled—may be able to achieve a considerable and lasting decline in oil prices to restrain the military/geopolitical activities of the Soviet Union/Russia that are deemed overly excessive. This paper analyses the relationship between the oil market and geopolitics in the last decade of the Cold War, when the oil price fell sharply contributing to the collapse of the Soviet economic and political system. Research results may prove useful in forming the geopolitical/geoeconomic strategy of superpowers, and it may be applied to forecast oil price fluctuations too.

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عنوان مقاله [English]

Oil Price Manipulation as a Geoeconomic Weapon Against the Soviet Union / Russia

نویسندگان [English]

  • Peter Remenyi 1
  • Peter Glofak 2
1 Associate Professor at the Department of Political Geography, Development and Regional Studies, University of Pecs, Hungary.
2 PhD Student at the Doctoral School of Earth Sciences – Geopolitical Program, Department of Political Geography, Development and Regional Studies, University of Pecs, Hungary.
چکیده [English]

In modern geopolitics economic warfare has become more and more significant. This paper examines a special segment of economic warfare: can oil price be manipulated and serve as an effective geopolitical (or geoeconomic) weapon, and if that is the case, under what conditions? This article demonstrates that the United States and its allies (mainly Saudi Arabia)—when certain economic, technological, and political conditions are fulfilled—may be able to achieve a considerable and lasting decline in oil prices to restrain the military/geopolitical activities of the Soviet Union/Russia that are deemed overly excessive. This paper analyses the relationship between the oil market and geopolitics in the last decade of the Cold War, when the oil price fell sharply contributing to the collapse of the Soviet economic and political system. Research results may prove useful in forming the geopolitical/geoeconomic strategy of superpowers, and it may be applied to forecast oil price fluctuations too.

کلیدواژه‌ها [English]

  • Economic Warfare
  • Geoeconomics
  • Oil
  • Russia
  • Soviet Union

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