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Article: To Have and Have Not: Southeast Asian Raw Materials and the Origins of the Pacific War.
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- March 22, 1996
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Southeast Asian Raw Materials and the Origins of the Pacific War. By Jonathan Marshall. (Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1995. Pp. xvi, 280. $28.00.)
One of the questions that continually generates debate in diplomatic history is: Do nations go to war for reasons of idealism or reasons of material self-interest? Jonathan Marshall's interest in this matter was generated by the Persian Gulf War, in which he judged the United States to be overwhelmingly motivated by the need to preserve access to oil supplies. Marshall decided to explore the question of American preoccupation with access to raw materials in the case of the origins ...