The Petroleum Triangle —— Oil, Globalization, and Terror

----- 石油三角：石油，全球化与恐怖

ISBN: 9780801463396 出版年：2011 页码：256 Yetiv, Steve A Cornell University Press

Steve Yetiv’s “The Petroleum Triangle” argues that oil and globalization separately and together produced unique conditions for “transnational terrorist” organizations and Al Qaeda to evolve and enjoy unprecedented success. With oil, he emphasizes its critical role in transportation, in driving the U.S. presence in the Gulf, in backing repressive regimes, and in providing vast money to Saudi elites that have financed Wahhabi proselytizing, the Taliban, and etc. With globalization, he stresses its bringing U.S. culture to the MENA Region providing grist for jihadist indignation, and its providing terrorists with the internet, instant media notoriety, easier movement across borders, and etc. Taken together, Yetiv argues, these uniquely enabled a small group which “sees the U.S. presence” in the Gulf “thorough a distorted religious lens,” to become an unprecedented threat far beyond its home..