Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet The New Geopolitics of Energy

Name: Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet The New Geopolitics of Energy
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ISBN: 9780805089219

ISBN-10: 0805089217

ISBN-13: 9780805089219

Edition: 2011

Authors: Michael T. Klare

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"Klare's superb book explains, in haunting detail, the trends that will lead us into a series of dangerous traps unless we muster the will to transform the way we use energy."Bill McKibbenOil recently hit140 a barrel, and it is still climbing. Unlike the oil shocks of the 1970s, this dizzying leap is not the product of an OPEC embargo or a sudden flare-up in the Middle East. Rather, it is a harbinger of a permanent new structure of world power, one in which market forces and military strength matter far less than the scarcity of vital natural resources.Now in paperback,Rising Powers, Shrinking Planetsurveys the energy-driven dynamic that is reconfiguring the international landscape: Russia,…

Book details

List price: $23.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Publication date: 3/31/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.00" wide x 8.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Michael T. Klare is Director of the Five College Program in Peace & World Security Studies in Amherst, Mass., & author of numerous books on the changing nature of warfare, including "Low-Intensity Warfare", "Word Security", & "Rogue States" & "Nuclear Outlaws". He lives in Northhampton, Massachusetts.



Prologue: The Unocal Affair



Altered States



Seeking More, Finding Less



The "Chindia" Challenge



An Energy Juggernaut



Draining The Caspian



The Global Assault on Africa's Vital Resources



Encroaching on An "American Lake"



Crossing A Threshold



Averting Catastrophe


Afterword: The Struggle Intensifies


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index