TY - UNPB
T1 - Iran in the First World War and the Pivotal Position of Persian Oil
T2 - 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War
AU - Atabaki, T.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - The outbreak of the war coincided with a period in the Iranian history when following the Constitutional Revolution of 1905-1909; the Iranians were poised to refashion the constitutional order and establish an independent, accountable, and effective government. The global conflict between the great Powers, which embraced the Iranian social, economic and political establishments, deepened political factionalism and rigorously undermined this effort. On the eve of the war, the global shift of industry, military and naval units from coal to oil resulted in an exponential growth of demand for petroleum products. This global shift had enormous implications for the strategic significance of the Middle East, a region that holds vast oil deposits. Iran and the Persian oil were in the core of this transition.
AB - The outbreak of the war coincided with a period in the Iranian history when following the Constitutional Revolution of 1905-1909; the Iranians were poised to refashion the constitutional order and establish an independent, accountable, and effective government. The global conflict between the great Powers, which embraced the Iranian social, economic and political establishments, deepened political factionalism and rigorously undermined this effort. On the eve of the war, the global shift of industry, military and naval units from coal to oil resulted in an exponential growth of demand for petroleum products. This global shift had enormous implications for the strategic significance of the Middle East, a region that holds vast oil deposits. Iran and the Persian oil were in the core of this transition.
M3 - Web article
BT - Iran in the First World War and the Pivotal Position of Persian Oil
PB - Freie Universität Berlin
CY - Berlin
ER -