F. William Engdahl
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Frederick William Engdahl, (born 1944) has written on issues of energy, politics and economics for more than 30 years, beginning with the first oil shock in the early 1970s. He has contributed regularly to a number of publications, including Japan's Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Foresight magazine, Grant's Investor.com, European Banker and Business Banker International. He has also spoken at numerous international conferences on geopolitical, economic and energy subjects, and is active as a consulting economist.
[edit] Biography
F. William Engdahl, an economist and writer, is author of the best-selling book on oil and geopolitics, "A Century of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order", which has been translated into Arabic, Korean, German, Croatian and Turkish. He has just completed the soon-to-be released "Seeds of Destruction: The Hidden Agenda of GMO".
He has written on issues of political economy, geopolitics, energy, agriculture, WTO, IMF, politics and economics for more than 30 years, beginning the first oil shock and world grain crisis in the early 1970's. After a degree in politics from Princeton University and graduate study in comparative economics at the University of Stockholm, he worked as an economist and free-lance journalist in New York and in Europe, covering subjects including the collapse of the USSR, the 1997-98 Asia Crisis, GATT Uruguay Round trade talks, EU food policies, the grain cartel, IMF policy, Third World debt issues, hedge funds and the political role of derivatives trade.
Mr. Engdahl contributes regularly to a number of publications including Asia Times Online, Asia, Inc, Japan's Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Foresight magazine; Freitag and ZeitFragen newspapers in Germany and Switzerland respectively; Grant'sInvestor.com, European Banker and Business Banker International. He is a frequent Contributor to FinancialSense.com and 321Gold.com among other online sites. He has spoken at numerous international conferences on geopolitical, economic, GMO, economic and energy subjects, including a keynote address to the Montreaux Global Investors’ Forum, the Centre for Energy Policy Studies in London, Bank Negara Indonesia in Jakarta, the International Chamber of Commerce in Zagreb and the International Institute of Strategic Studies in Moscow. He currently lives in Germany and in addition to writing regularly on issues of economics, energy and international affairs, is active as a consulting geopolitical risk economist.
In his book, Engdahl discusses the role of Brzezinski and George Ball in the 1979 overthrow of the Shah of Iran to modulate oil prices and to stop the Soviet expansion. William Engdahl discusses how Brzezinski and Ball used the Islamic Balkanization model proposed by Dr Bernard Lewis. Other authors have discussed the greater influence of this strategy in convincing the United States government to support the Mujahaddin and other jihadist fighters in Afghanistan and how this Islamist Balkanization planted the seeds of the Chechan separatist movement which Russia is currently unsuccesssful in suppressing.
[edit] References
- Engdahl, F. William: A Century of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order, London: Pluto 2004, rev. ed., 303 p., ill.
- Engdahl, F. William: Seeds of Destruction. The Hidden Agenda of GMO, 2006 (in press)
