This book examines the emerging global struggle for access to energy resources as rising economic powers compete for shrinking supplies. Michael T. Klare analyzes how geopolitical tensions, resource depletion, and increasing demand from countries such as China and India are reshaping international relations. The book explores the political and environmental consequences of global energy depende…
In the early 1970s, the Middle East began arming itself with the windfall profits from oil price increases. Now Asia, with its newfound affluence as the world's lowest-cost and highest-quality manufacturer, is devoting much of its windfall profits to arms. Growth and emerging energy shortages are giving birth to dangerous new tensions. These build on ancient antagonisms, the residue of the Cold…
Global warming, rolling black outs, massive tanker spills, oil dependence: our profligate ways have doomed us to suffer such tragedies, right? Perhaps, but Vijay Vaitheeswaran, the energy and environment correspondent for The Economist, sees great opportunity in the energy realm today, and Power to the People is his fiercely independent and irresistibly entertaining look at the economic, politi…