Research Catalog

Title

Mexico's oil and U.S. policy : implications for the 1980s : executive briefing / prepared for the U.S. Department of Energy [by] David Ronfeldt.

Author

Ronfeldt, David F.

Publication

Santa Monica, CA : Rand Corp., 1980.

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Additional Authors

• United States. Department of Energy.
• Rand Corporation.

Description

v, 15 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

"This report documents an executive briefing given to the Board of Trustees of The RAND Corporation. Focusing on newly discovered liquid petroleum reserves, it predicts what Mexico will do with its oil and it suggests how the United States can best respond to Mexico's actions. It is limited to an examination of Mexico's oil, and excludes consideration of Mexico's natural gas reserves. Mexico's behavior will probably agree with U.S. interests in most of the issues examined. There are potential problems arising out of Mexico's possible decisions concerning the installation of emergency oil production capacity, the development of nuclear energy as an alternative power source, and the invocation of protectionist trade barriers. The research points to one overall principle: to be successful, U.S. policy must respond as much to Mexico's sense of sovereignty as to what Americans regard as economic rationality."--Provided by publisher.

Subject

• Petroleum industry and trade > Mexico
• United States > Foreign economic relations > Mexico
• Mexico > Foreign economic relations > United States

Note

• "R-2510/2-DOE/RC."
• Based on : Mexico's petroleum and U.S. policy / by David Ronfeldt, Richard Nehring, Arturo Gandara.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

LCCN

^^^81161235^

OCLC

• 7603373
• SCSB-10292880

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library