Rising powers, shrinking planet : the new geopolitics of energy /

Klare, Michael T., 1942-

Rising powers, shrinking planet : the new geopolitics of energy / Michael T. Klare. - [New] ed. - New York : Holt Paperback, c2009. - 339 p. : maps 21 cm

Originally published: New York : Metropolitan Books, 2008.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Prologue: The Unocal affair -- Altered states -- Seeking more, finding less -- The "Chindia" challenge -- An energy juggernaught -- 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.

Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet surveys the energy-driven dynamic that is reconfiguring the international landscape: Russia, the battered Cold War loser, is now the arrogant broker of Eurasian energy, and the United States, once the world's superpower, must now compete with the emerging "Chindia" juggernaut for finite and diminishing resources. Forecasting a future of surprising new alliances and explosive danger, Michael T. Klare, the preeminent expert on resource geopolitics, argues that the only route to survival in our radically altered world lies through international cooperation.

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