Energy and Security: Strategies for a World in Transition - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1421411865 ISBN 13: 9781421411866

Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Press / Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013

Synopsis

The second, completely updated edition of this widely read and respected guide is the most authoritative survey available on the perennial question of energy security. Energy and Security gathers today's topmost foreign policy and energy experts and leaders to assess how the United States can integrate its energy and national security interests.

This edition offers fresh analysis and insight into

· Fundamental shifts in the global energy balance
· The revolution in shale gas and oil
· New energy frontiers, from ultra deepwater to the Arctic
· The rising agenda of safety concerns across the energy complex
· Energy poverty
· Infrastructure for modernizing power grids
· Climate security in the current political and economic environment

The contributors offer a lively discussion of the challenges and opportunities presented by these changes and how they affect national security and regional politics around the globe.

About this title

About the Author:

Jan H. Kalicki is a senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center and Counselor for International Strategy at Chevron. He served previously as White House NIS ombudsman and counselor to the Department of Commerce in the Clinton Administration, where he played a leading role in Russian, Eurasian, and Middle East commercial energy issues. David L. Goldwyn is president of Goldwyn Global Strategies, LLC, an international consulting firm. From 2009 to 2011 he served as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's Special Envoy and Coordinator for International Energy Affairs, where he created the Global Shale Gas Initiative and the Energy Governance and Capacity Initiative.

Review:

"Developing a strategy to secure reliable and reasonably priced energy must be among our nation's top critical priorities, and it's hard to imagine a more important contribution to the development of our policies than the analysis and proposals contained in Energy & Security. The second edition, completely updated with chapters by some of the most distinguished energy and foreign policy experts in the world, is a tour-de-force when it comes to the kind of fresh and rigorous thinking that ought to be applied to America’s foreign policy in the years ahead. It is essential reading for all who care about the most serious global challenges that will shape our nation."

(Jeffrey E. Garten, Yale University; former Dean, Yale School of Management; former U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce)

"A balanced overview of the energy debate."

(Political Studies Review)

"The authors do an excellent job of describing the issues as seen in Washington, including analysis of the debates about what should be government policies. That is a welcome contrast to the shrill tone and extreme positions staked out by many authors addressing these matters."

(Middle East Quarterly)

"An important contribution to mutual understanding not only in energy but also in the broader realm of energy security and foreign policy."

(Abdullah bin Hamad Al-Attiyah, Deputy Prime Minister, State of Qatar, and former President, OPEC Ministerial Conference)

About this edition

• Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Press / Johns Hopkins University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1421411865
• ISBN 13: 9781421411866
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 664
• Editor: Kalicki Jan H., Goldwyn David L.