The risk pivot : great powers, international security, and the energy revolution / Bruce Jones, David Steven.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jones, Bruce D.

Contributor:

Steven, David, 1968-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Power resources.

Energy consumption.

Security, International.

Physical Description:

vii, 206 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [2015]

Summary:

This short book lays out the foreign policy and security implications of dramatic changes in energy production, distribution, and consumption. It's impossible to separate struggles over energy from modern security relations, the global economy, or international development. For seven decades, an "oil for security" deal between the U.S. and the Persian Gulf has been at the core of international stability. Now we're at a moment of geopolitical flux: The rising Asian powers, India and China, are increasingly dependent on Middle East oil and gas, while Russia is seeking a new energy partnership with China. An energy revolution across the Americas is shifting the center of gravity of global energy markets. The energy demands of the rising global middle class pose acute challenges to governance and to development. The U.S. role in securing energy flows from the Middle East is in question. All this amounts to a "risk pivot" in international security. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction : an energy revolution

Energy and geopolitics

Resources and globalization

Energy and climate

Toward sustainable globalization : the international governance of energy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-186) and index.

ISBN:

9780815726043

081572604X

9780815726050

0815726058

OCLC:

868037372