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to fuel the country s economy and military. - [sachs] typically, american foreign policy like british imperial foreign policy before it, paid a tremendous amount of attention to securing oil for the economy. that includes who we have befriended, but it has also included us launching wars; stationing military bases; engaging in coups and orienting a massive amount of our foreign policy around oil. - [mcnally] by world war one, oil was transitioning to becoming the lifeblood of modern civilization. if electricity is literally the circuitry, without which modern life is impossible, oil is the lifeblood. - [jacobs] it s both vital to our economy and it s vital to our military. and that became true once we switched to an oil based military. - [narrator] in recent years, the us energy revolution has shifted the geopolitical balance. - [gordon] this is a new state of affairs. this was not happening a decade ago, but today 80 percent of the oil in america is sourced from north ....
but the taliban has rebounded. as washington and nato pivot away from afghanistan, the ability of the government and security forces to maintain stability will be tested. afghanistan, next on great decisions. - [announcer] great decisions is produced by the foreign policy association, in association with thomson reuters. funding for great decisions is provided by pricewaterhousecoopers llp. - [narrator] afghanistan sits at the crossroads of the middle east, russia, and south asia. for centuries it has been a focal point of both trade and war. - afghans are very proud people, and because of our strategic location, we have been resisting the super powers. we have fought ghengis khan, tamerlane, alexander the great, the british, the soviet union. so really the idea of accepting the dominance of another country, is not in the gene of the afghans. - afghanistan has been referred to as the graveyard of empires because it s a very rugged, dry generally, typography. neither the ....
(dramatic instrumental) - [narrator] great decisions is produced by the foreign policy association. in association with thomson reuters. funding for great decisions is provided by pricewaterhousecoopers llp. - [narrator] everywhere around us are signs of international trade. - the basic idea of trade as economists have understood it now for two centuries is that trade expands the pie, it makes the economy more efficient, it directs resources to comparative advantages as economists say. but it also changes the income distribution. - we ve come through this very long period in which the united states went from being a relatively closed economy to being quite an open one. and the result of that was a lot of competition for jobs, for wages, for export opportunities in sectors that really hadn t faced competition before. - [narrator] advances in communication, technology, and transport have thrown open the door to trade like no other time in history. - globalization is histo ....
to fuel the country s economy and military. - [sachs] typically, american foreign policy like british imperial foreign policy before it, paid a tremendous amount of attention to securing oil for the economy. that includes who we have befriended, but it has also included us launching wars; stationing military bases; engaging in coups and orienting a massive amount of our foreign policy around oil. - [mcnally] by world war one, oil was transitioning to becoming the lifeblood of modern civilization. if electricity is literally the circuitry, without which modern life is impossible, oil is the lifeblood. - [jacobs] it s both vital to our economy and it s vital to our military. and that became true once we switched to an oil based military. - [narrator] in recent years, the us energy revolution has shifted the geopolitical balance. - [gordon] this is a new state of affairs. this was not happening a decade ago, but today 80 percent of the oil in america is sourced from north ....
the architect of those attacks, osama bin laden, is dead, but the taliban has rebounded. as washington and nato pivot away from afghanistan, the ability of the government and security forces to maintain stability will be tested. afghanistan, next on great decisions. - [announcer] great decisions is produced by the foreign policy association, in association with thomson reuters. funding for great decisions is provided by pricewaterhousecoopers llp. - [narrator] afghanistan sits at the crossroads of the middle east, russia, and south asia. for centuries it has been a focal point of both trade and war. - afghans are very proud people, and because of our strategic location, we have been resisting the super powers. we have fought ghengis khan, tamerlane, alexander the great, the british, the soviet union. so really the idea of accepting the dominance of another country, is not in the gene of the afghans. - afghanistan has been referred to as the graveyard of empires because ....