The Return of Marco Polo's World: War, Strategy, and American Interests in the Twenty-First Century
by Robert D. Kaplan · 6 Mar 2018 · 247pp · 78,961 words
-ifs is long and compelling. Just some examples: Had we not invaded, the sanctions regime against the Iraqi dictator would soon have crumbled, without the oil-for-food scandal being exposed. The French, Russians, and Chinese would have swept in with lucrative deals for Saddam, even as he restarted his weapons program. The arms
It's Our Turn to Eat
by Michela Wrong · 9 Apr 2009 · 403pp · 125,659 words
six independent experts recruited. The panel was headed by Paul Volcker, former chairman of the US Federal Reserve, who had also probed the UN's oil-for-food scandal. John had made the transition from domestic whistleblower to internationally recognised expert on graft, with a finger on the pulse of the global aid debate
America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy
by Francis Fukuyama · 20 Mar 2007 · 214pp · 57,614 words
to say about new possi- The Neoconseiuative Legacy bilities for multilateral organization. They would much rather harp on the United Nation's failings in the Oil for Food scandal than think about how to create an organization of democracies that would build incentives to improve governance and democracy around the world. In the period
Independent Diplomat: Dispatches From an Unaccountable Elite
by Carne Ross · 25 Apr 2007 · 212pp · 68,690 words
UN membership, which are themselves often stitched up through backroom deals between countries. 2 You will not find in this chapter a discussion of the Oil-for-Food “scandal” that has erupted in recent years. On this I have nothing to add to the excellent Volcker report (to which I testified at length). 3
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of intelligence on Iraq’s WMD headed by Lord Butler, to which I testified in the summer of 2004. 3 The Volcker Inquiry into the oil-for-food scandal found no such evidence. 5. Them and Us 1 Game metaphors have been common in theories of international relations for some time. “Domino Theory”, for
Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order
by Parag Khanna · 4 Mar 2008 · 537pp · 158,544 words
case they would have to flee the West Bank less than sixty miles away. Hundreds of Jordanian and Syrian companies were implicated in the UN oil for food scandal by which kickbacks were paid to arrange the evasion of the sanctions on Iraq under Saddam Hussein. Foreign contractors use Amman as a staging point
The Secret World of Oil
by Ken Silverstein · 30 Apr 2014 · 233pp · 73,772 words
years, major oil-trading firms were discovered to have arranged secret deals with pariah states such as Sudan and were implicated in the United Nations oil-for-food scandal during Saddam Hussein’s rule in Iraq. More recently, Amsterdam-based Trafigura, a trading firm that operates widely in West Africa, was found to have
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chairman; and Oscar Wyatt, a Houston oilman and corporate raider who was sentenced to a year in prison in 2007 in connection with the UN oil-for-food scandal. One of the more colorful of that era’s fixers was John Deuss, who once owned his own tanker fleet, and who during the 1980s
Keeping at It: The Quest for Sound Money and Good Government
by Paul Volcker and Christine Harper · 30 Oct 2018 · 363pp · 98,024 words
complexity. It’s worth reading for insights into the mismanagement of an international organization. Jeffrey A. Meyer and Mark G. Califano, Good Intentions Corrupted: The Oil-for-Food Scandal and the Threat to the U.N. (PublicAffairs, 2006). the “Volcker Effect”: Press Trust of India, “Volcker Effect: Natwar Singh Removed as Foreign Minister,” Times
The Secret Club That Runs the World: Inside the Fraternity of Commodity Traders
by Kate Kelly · 2 Jun 2014 · 289pp · 77,532 words
had embarrassed the industry, and Glencore’s IPO had inadvertently invited a period of painful new scrutiny. Just a few years after the U.N. oil-for-food scandal and Trafi’s toxic-waste incident in the Ivory Coast, the physical commodity traders were again seen as mercenaries who left damage in their wake
Poisoned Wells: The Dirty Politics of African Oil
by Nicholas Shaxson · 20 Mar 2007
act subtly from many directions. Gaydamak railed against the French investigating magistrate Philippe Courroye who is pursuing him (and leading French investigations into the Iraq oil-for-food scandal). “This Courroye is taking everybody in France by the balls,” Gaydamak said, literally coughing out the judge’s name. Noting the French word courroie, a
The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World
by Daniel Yergin · 14 May 2011 · 1,373pp · 300,577 words
, Fred. “M. King Hubbert as a Teacher.” Presentation. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting. Seattle. (2003). Meyer, Jeffrey, and Mark Califano. Good Intentions Corrupted: The Oil-for-Food Scandal and the Threat to the U.N. New York: Public Affairs, 2006. Meyer, Karl E., and Shareen Blair Brysac. Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game
The Ripple Effect: The Fate of Fresh Water in the Twenty-First Century
by Alex Prud'Homme · 6 Jun 2011 · 692pp · 167,950 words
Gusher of Lies: The Dangerous Delusions of Energy Independence
by Robert Bryce · 16 Mar 2011 · 415pp · 103,231 words
The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources
by Javier Blas and Jack Farchy · 25 Feb 2021 · 565pp · 134,138 words
The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq
by Steve Coll · 27 Feb 2024 · 738pp · 196,803 words
Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare
by Edward Fishman · 25 Feb 2025 · 884pp · 221,861 words