ABSTRACT
The task of the preceding three chapters was to deal in some detail with U.S. national interests concerning energy, minerals, and food. In their examinations, the authors necessarily raised questions of foreign policy inasmuch as they are inherent in the problems at hand. Indeed, one of the major themes of this volume is that U.S. resources cannot be considered as purely domestic. The markets in which they are traded are global and, at least since the turbulent 1970s, foreign policy issues are inseparable from the demand and supply of the major natural resources.
