Windfall: How the New Energy Abundance Upends Global Politics and Strengthens America s Power

O'Sullivan, Meghan L.

ISBN 10: 1501179551 / ISBN 13: 9781501179556

Edité par Simon + Schuster Inc., 2017

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• Titre: Windfall: How the New Energy Abundance Upends Global Politics and Strengthens America s Power
• Éditeur: Simon + Schuster Inc.
• Date de parution: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1501179551
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781501179556
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• État de l'article: Very Good
• Poids: 380 grammes

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Synopsis

Windfall is the boldest profile of the world’s energy resources since Daniel Yergin’s The Quest, asserting that the new energy abundance—due to oil and gas resources once deemed too expensive—is transforming the geo-political order and is boosting American power.

“Riveting and comprehensive...a smart, deeply researched primer on the subject.” —The New York Times Book Review

As a new administration focuses on driving American energy production, O’Sullivan’s “refreshing and illuminating” (Foreign Policy) Windfall describes how new energy realities have profoundly affected the world of international relations and security. New technologies led to oversupplied oil markets and an emerging natural gas glut. This did more than drive down prices—it changed the structure of markets and altered the way many countries wield power and influence.

America’s new energy prowess has global implications. It transforms politics in Russia, Europe, China, and the Middle East. O’Sullivan considers the landscape, offering insights and presenting consequences for each region’s domestic stability as energy abundance upends traditional partnerships, creating opportunities for cooperation.

The advantages of this new abundance are greater than its downside for the US: it strengthens American hard and soft power. This is “a powerful argument for how America should capitalise on the ‘New Energy Abundance’” (The Financial Times) and an explanation of how new energy realities create a strategic environment to America’s advantage.

À propos de l?auteur

Meghan L. O’Sullivan is the Jeane Kirkpatrick Professor of the Practice of International Affairs at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. She is also the Director of the Geopolitics of Energy Project, which explores the complex interaction between energy markets and international politics. Between 2004 and 2007, she was special assistant to President George W. Bush and Deputy National Security Advisor for Iraq and Afghanistan for the last two years of her tenure. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Windfall: The New Energy Abundance Upends Global Politics is her third book.