Risk Pivot America Emerging Powers And The Energy Revolution
Publisher: Brookings Institution
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9780815726043
Description: "This short book lays out the foreign policy and security implications of dramatic changes in energy production, distribution, and consumption. It's impossible to separate struggles over energy from modern security relations, the global economy, or international development. For seven decades, an 'oil for security' deal between the U.S. and the Persian Gulf has been at the core of international stability. Now we're at a moment of geographical flux ... . All this amounts to a 'risk pivot' in international security"--Provided by publisher.