Oil as a diplomatic weapon: the strategies and politics of breaking dependency on energy needs by middle level developing countries with technological capacity

[摘要] Faced with the potential threat of oil embargoes imposed byproducer countries for political reasons, the consumer countriesreacted by creating different alternatives which granted them someenergy independence and security of supply by using alternativeproducts and technologies available in their own countrles,Can a middle level developing country break out of the cycle ofdependency in the area of energy?This dissertation investigates the strategy developed andimplemented by South Africa between 1973 and 1993, whichinvested heavily in the generation of fuel extracted from coal in orderto rescue its country from crisis and support it through critical periodsof history.

[发布机构] University of the Witwatersrand