Crude Interventions: The United States, Oil and the New World (Dis)Order is a 2006 book written by independent journalist Garry Leech

Garry Leech

Garry Leech is a British-born American independent journalist, author and editor of the online publication Colombia Journal, which analyzes U.S. foreign policy in Colombia...

. It was published in the United States by Palgrave Macmillan. Outside of the United States, it was published by Zed Books Ltd. Crude Interventions examines relevant geopolitical issues in the 21st Century such as terrorism

Terrorism

Terrorism is the systematic use of terror, especially as a means of coercion. In the international community, however, terrorism has no universally agreed, legally binding, criminal law definition...

 and globalization

Globalization

Globalization refers to the increasingly global relationships of culture, people and economic activity. Most often, it refers to economics: the global distribution of the production of goods and services, through reduction of barriers to international trade such as tariffs, export fees, and import...

. Mr. Leech attempts to show how these aforementioned issues are related to the U.S.'s incredible demand for oil, U.S.'s hegemony, and America's foreign policy. Mr. Leech's critique of the United States's foreign policy is explicitly shown in this gripping, highly informative look at the U.S.'s quest for an increased supply of natural resources, specifically oil.