From Scarcity to Abundance: The New Geopolitics of Energy
Journal: Revista de Estudos e Pesquisas Avançadas do Terceiro Setor
Year: 2018

For most of the Petroleum Age, and even as recently as ten years ago, the politics of energy were largely governed by perceptions of scarcity: the assumption that global supplies of most primary fuels were finite and would eventually prove insufficient to satisfy rising worldwide demand, resulting in intense competition over what remained. The enduring prevalence of this view led many oil-importing nations to establish close ties with their major foreign suppliers and to employ force on occasion