Racing to the top : how energy fuels systematic leadership in world politics / William R. Thompson and Leila Zakhirova.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thompson, William R., author.

Zakhirova, Leila, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Energy policy--Case studies.

Energy policy.

Energy development--Case studies.

Energy development.

Energy consumption--Case studies.

Energy consumption.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

ix, 306 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I INTRODUCTION

1. Systemic Leadership and Energy: The Argument

2. Leadership Long Cycle Framework

3. Revising the Framework: Energy and Eurasian History

pt. II PAST

4. Rome as the Pinnacle of the Western Ancient World

5. China: The Incomplete Transition

6. Netherlands: Not Quite the First Modern Economy and Its Immediate Predecessors

7. Britain: The First Modern Industrial Economy: Combining Technology and Energy

8. United States: Emulating and Surpassing Britain

9. Comparing the Four Main Cases

pt. III FUTURE

10. Energy, Technology, and (Possibly) the Nature of the Next World Economy Upswing

11. Fracking, Warming, and Systemic Leadership

12. Racing to a Renewable Transition?

13. Denouement: World Politics, Systemic Leadership, and Climate Change.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780190699680

019069968X

9780190699697

0190699698

OCLC:

1079901943