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Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet: How Scarce Energy Is Creating a New World Order | 
 enlarge | Author: Michael Klare
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 230987
Media: Paperback
Pages: 336
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Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.4 x 1.1
ISBN: 1851686282
EAN: 9781851686285
ASIN: 1851686282
Publication Date: September 1, 2008
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Required reading for every global leader today October 3, 2008
Michael Klare is a professor of Security Studies and has a lifetime of experience in analysing energy trends and their connection to conflict. In this latest book, `Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet: how scarce energy is creating a new world order', Klare takes a broad look at who has resources and who wants them. What he finds is not pretty.
There are essentially four main resource pools: the Middle East, the Caspian Sea, Russia and Africa. and Klare explores each of these in turn in a series of chapters. A number of competing powers are engaged in all of them - the US, the EU, Russia, Japan, and the increasingly thirsty India and China - knowing that their economies rely on the continued supply of oil and gas.
Despite the talk of liberal economics, these resources are far too important to leave to the market to provide, and `energy security' is top of every government's agenda. As demand reaches ever closer to the limits of supply, increased tension looks unavoidable, and full scale conflict is a very real risk.
Michael Klare explores the dirty dance of politics and oil with encyclopedic knowledge, and he approaches it from the point of view of international relations, not ranting environmentalism or anti-globalisation rhetoric. It's rare to find such obvious expertise in such an accesssible style, and 'Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet' should be required reading for every global leader today.
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