The colder war : how the global energy trade slipped from America's grasp / Marin Katusa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Katusa, Marin, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Petroleum industry and trade--Political aspects--Russia (Federation)--History.

Petroleum industry and trade.

Petroleum industry and trade--Political aspects--United States--History.

Russia (Federation)--Politics and government--1991-.

Russia (Federation).

Russia (Federation)--Economic policy--1991-.

Russia (Federation)--Foreign relations--United States.

United States--Foreign relations--Russia (Federation).

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (269 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

2014.

Hoboken, New Jersey ; Stowe, Vermont : Wiley : Casey Research, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How the massive power shift in Russia threatens the political dominance of the United States There is a new cold war underway, driven by a massive geopolitical power shift to Russia that went almost unnoticed across the globe. In The Colder War: How the Global Energy Trade Slipped from America's Grasp, energy expert Marin Katusa takes a look at the ways the western world is losing control of the energy market, and what can be done about it. Russia is in the midst of a rapid economic and geopolitical renaissance under the rule of Vladimir Putin, a tenacious KGB officer turned modern-day tsar. U

Contents:

The Colder War; Contents; Foreword; Energy; ... and the Man; Acknowledgments; The Colder War; 1 The End of the Lost Decade; The Lost Decade; Move to Moscow; The Bombings; Second Chechen War; Putin Installed; 2 Humbling the Oligarchs; Land of Opportunity; Nailing Khodorkovsky; Vouchers; The Yukos Way; Putins Best Offer; Dropping the Hammer; A Trail of Bodies; Daring to Notice; Survive and Thrive; Vision and Principle; 3 The Great Game and the End of the Cold War; The First Drop; The Pioneer; Go Big; Oil, War, and Peace; The First Nickel; Everyones Dollar; Thank You, Mr. Nixon

4 The Slavic WarriorLittle Boy Putin; Big Boy Putin; Putin at Work; Hands off Georgia; Hands on Georgia; 5 Ukraine; What Putin Wants in Ukraine; Gas Transport; Sevastopol; Protecting Russians; The Buffer; After the USSR; Dont Forget to Vote; Maidan Up Close; Crimea Comes Home; 6 Putin the Statesman; Beyond the Common Economic Space; Here We Go Again; 7 The Putinization of Oil; Arctic Oil; European Market; Rosneft; Winking at OPEC; Oil Pipelines; 8 The Putinization of Gas; Better Pipes; Liquefied Natural Gas; European Burners; Gazprom; Beyond Europe and Back; 9 The Putinization of Uranium

Long-Term ShortageScience Lesson; Short-Term Fixes; Putins Uranium Superstore; The Ultimate Source; Going to School in Mongolia; Toward the Endgame; The Transient Surplus; 10 The Middle East: Oil, Wars, and the Great Game; Iran: Sanctions, Coups, and Revolutions; Iraq: The Quagmire; Iraqs Oil History; Kurdistan The Would-Be Country; Afghanistan: The Bear Trap; Syria: Why Do We Care?; Bahrains Importance; Israel; Rattling around the Shaky House of Saud; 11 Twilight of the Petrodollar; Darts at the Dollar; The Dollar Shoots Itself; The Tide of Commerce; Back to Riyadh

12 Post-Petrodollar AmericaSoftening Up; The Process; On the Fast Tracks; Last Exit; What You Can Do; Bringing Modern Technology to Old Fields; Afterword; References; About the Author; Index; Advert; EULA

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-118-80007-9

1-118-80005-2

OCLC:

893739839