Energy Security and Global Politics

The Militarization of Resource Management

By: Daniel Moran (Editor), James A. Russell (Editor)

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Hardcover | 17 July 2008 | Edition Number 1

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This book analyses the strategic dimensions of energy security, particularly where energy resources have become the object of military competition.

The volume explores the risks that may arise from conditions of increasing economic competition and resource scarcity, and the problems that may follow if major producers or consumers of energy lose confidence in the equity and efficiency of the market, and resort instead to the use of force to secure access to energy. It surveys the strategic outlook of both producer and consumer states, with emphasis on nations or regions (Central Asia, Russia, China, Venezuela, the Persian Gulf) where unstable or rapidly evolving political conditions may undermine the currently prevailing market consensus. It also examines the role of the United States as the chief guarantor of the global economy, and the challenge this poses for its exercise of military power. The book contests that while the global energy market may be largely self-regulating, it is not self-defending. A failure to consider how it can be most effectively defended from emerging and potential challenges merely heightens the risk that those challenges may someday become real.

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List of contributors	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. viii
Introduction: the militarization of energy security	p. 1
The battlefield and the marketplace: two cautionary tales	p. 19
Petroleum anxiety and the militarization of energy security	p. 39
Al-Qaeda, oil dependence, and US foreign policy	p. 62
Gulf oil and international security: can the world's only superpower keep the oil flowing?	p. 75
Regional issues and strategic responses: the Gulf states	p. 95
Energy security: the Russian connection	p. 112
Central Asia: energy resources, politics, and security	p. 135
Maintaining Gazpromistan: the politics of Turkmen gas exports	p. 155
Energy security: the case of Venezuela	p. 175
Chinese energy security and the Chinese regime	p. 188
Resource mercantilism and the militarization of resource management: rising Asia and the future of American primacy in the Persian Gulf	p. 211
Index	p. 243
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