Product Description: Geopolitics and Energy in Iraq addresses issues related to the March 7, 2010, Iraqi national election; the selection of a prime minister; and whether the promise of that election will be fulfilled. If a functioning government is not seated, will the country return to the sectarian conflicts that characterized its past? Senior Iraqi officials fear that the U...read more

Product Description: The world was surprised when China emerged in 2004 as a major importer and consumer of oil. Today, that surprise has been replaced by growing concern that the China of tomorrow may be in a position to challenge the United States not only for economic leadership but for political leadership as well...read more

Product Description: Russia is a major player in both oil and gas exports, and much of the country's current and likely future economic growth is based on the income these exports will generate, particularly when high market prices prevail. When prices and demand decline drastically as they have recently, dependence on export income becomes a burden...read more

Product Description: China, because of its voracious appetite for oil, has become part of the "new game" redefining the world oil industry. China's expanding economy requires more and more foreign oil. Robert Ebel analyzes China's current energy situation and looks at its future in the increasingly dynamic world energy market...read more

This timely study is the first to examine the relationship between competition for energy resources and the propensity for conflict in the Caspian region. Taking the discussion well beyond issues of pipeline politics and the significance of Caspian oil and gas to the global market, the book offers significant new findings concerning the impact of energy wealth on the political life and economies of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and Turkmenistan. The contributors, a leading group of scholars and policymakers, explore the differing interests of ruling elites, the political opposition, and minority ethnic and religious groups region-wide. Placing Caspian development in the broader international relations context, the book assesses the ways in which Russia, China, Iran, and Turkey are fighting to protect their interests in the newly independent states and how competition for production contracts and pipeline routes influences regional security. Specific chapters also link regional issues to central questions of international politics and to theoretical debates over the role of energy wealth in political and economic development worldwide. Woven throughout the implications for U.S. policy, giving the book wide appeal to policymakers, corporate executives, energy analysts, and scholars alike. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This report identifies and evaluates the key--and in many cases hidden--geopolitical forces that threaten to disrupt the current relatively benign energy environment and alter established relationships between energy-producer and energy-consumer countries over the next 10-15 years...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Three-volume set that provides a timely and broad-based analysis of the emerging challenges to global energy markets, offering policymakers and energy-related companies the opportunity to take anticipatory rather than reactive decisions over the coming years...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Since 1985, world energy markets have traversed a period of relative calm. This calm masks two dangers: (1) it has obscured highly significant shifts in the geopolitics of future global energy security, supply, and demand; and (2) U...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This report addresses an issue of critical importance to the national security interests of the United States. Is the United States now pursuing a well-conceived and effective program of cooperation with Russia in the disposition of those vast amounts of separated plutonium that have become excess to the nuclear weapons needs of the two countries? This report sets out the U...read more

Product Description: Fifteen nuclear reactors of the type that exploded at Chernobyl in April 1986 are still operating in Russia, Ukraine, and Lithuania. The West, concerned about safety of operations, wants these reactors shut down, but the host nations refuse...read more

Product Description: "Despite the tragedy of Chernobyl, comparatively little has been done, either by the former Soviet Union or by the West, to minimize if not eliminate another accident. The rhetoric and resolve has yet to be matched by the necessary funding...read more

Product Description: Despite pressure form the West for them to be shut down their Chernobyl-type reactors immediately, Russia, Ukraine and Lithuania have consistently refused to comply. They argue that the power generated by these reactors is much too important locally to lose, especially since supplies of alternative energy are declining...read more