ENERGY IN THE WORLD,
POWER & COSTS
Suggested reading & research from Ed Knox
For future discussion:
- Oil: What it means to the world's large producers. The impact of oil on economies, societies, governance, militaries, environments.
Russia
US Saudi Arabia Iraq Iran Libya |
Qatar
UAE Oman Nigeria Venezuela Ecuador |
China
Canada Brazil Norway Mexico Algeria |
Articles of interest:
Energy FAQs
Partly for fun...
Books:
- "A Bad Time for an Oil-Price Feud" on "Fareed's Global Briefing," March 9, 2020
- "Oil Bonanza Plunges Guyana Into Political Crisis" by Anatoly Kurmanaev in "The New York Times," March 5, 2020
- "OPEC considers production cuts as coronavirus impacts China's oil demand" by Ben German on "Axios," Feb 3, 2020
- "For Developing Countries, Is Oil No Longer a Path to Success?" on "Fareed's Global Briefing," Jan 20, 2020
- "Dig Beneath the World’s Far-Right Governments — You’ll Find Fossil Fuels" by Basav Sen on "Informed Comment," Oct 13, 2019
- "A Dirty Road to Clean Energy" on "Fareed's Global Briefing, Sept 6, 2019
- "America’s Energy Independence Won’t Last Forever" on "Fareed's Global Briefing," July 17, 2019
- "Why Saudi Extremism, Instability is an Argument for EVs, Wind and Solar Energy" by Juan Cole on "Informed Comment," June 14, 2017
- "Is Trump Launching a New World Order?: The Petro-Powers vs. the Greens" by Michael T. Klare on "TomDispatch.com," June 11, 2017
- "Coal Museum Sees the Future; Trump Doesn’t" by Thomas L. Friedman in "The New York Times," April 19, 2017
- "UN report: Clean power is up, costs are down" by Roger Harrabin on "BBC News," April 6, 2017
- "Trump Admin Nominations Calm MidEast Allies" by Gerald Feierstein on "Middle East Institute," Jan 17, 2017
- "Saudi Takes Lead in Reducing Oil Output" by Ruba Husari on "Middle East Institute," Jan 17, 2017"
- "Saudi Arabia, Where Even Milk Depends on Oil, Struggles to Remake Its Economy" by Nicholas Kulish in "The New York Times," Oct 13, 2016
- "Talk of Oil Freeze Still Only Talk" by Ruba Husari on "Middle East Institute," Oct 11, 2016
- "Monday Briefing: Turkish Incursion into Syria, OPEC Meeting" By Gönül Tol, Daniel Serwer & Jean-François Seznec on "Middle East Institute," Aug 29, 2016
- "Saudis and Extremism: 'Both the Arsonists and the Firefighters'," by Scott Sahne in "The New York Times, Aug 25, 2016
- "What If Saudi Arabia Collapses?" by Theodore Karasik and Joseph Cozza on "LobeLog Foreign Policy," Aug 10, 2016
- "The South China Sea: Explaining the Dispute" by Max Fisher in "The New York Times," July 14, 2016
- "China's Maritime Disputes" on "Council on Foreign Relations" [undated]
- "Monday Briefing: Chilcot Report, French FM in Lebanon, Iran Economy" by Daniel Serwer, Alex Vatanka on Paul Salem at "Middle East Institute," July 11, 2016
- "A century on: Why Arabs resent Sykes-Picot" on "aljazeera.com" [undated]
- "Is the Mideast disintegrating or just being Auctioned Off?" by Patrick Cockburn on "Informed Comment," June 29, 2016
- "Venezuela Needs International Assistance to Recover" by Ricardo Hausmann in "The New York Times," June 28, 2016
- "How Venezuela Fell Into Crisis, and What Could Happen Next" by Rick Gladstone in "The New York Times," May 27, 2016
- "War out of sight, sacrifice out of mind" by Andrew J. Bacevich in "The Boston Globe," April 24, 2016
- "Reinventing Saudi Arabia after Oil: The Prince’s $2 Trillion Gamble" by Juan Cole on "Informed Comment," April 26, 2016
- "3 Surprising reasons Saudi Arabia may be getting out of the Oil Business" by Juan Cole on "Informed Comment," April 2, 2016
- "Saudis Moving to Reduce Dependence on Oil Money" by Ben Hubbard & Stanley Reed in "The New York Times," April 1, 2016
- "How Saudi Arabia Turned Its Greatest Weapon on Itself" bu Andrew Scott Cooper in "The New York Times," March 12, 2016
- "Andrew Bacevich, How to Avert Real Change in Election 2016" by Tom Engelhardt on "TomDispatch," Jan 26, 2016 (introduction to "Out of Bounds, Off-Limits, or Just Plain Ignored: Out of Bounds, Off-Limits, or Just Plain Ignored: Six National Security Questions Hillary, Donald, Ted, Marco, et al., Don’t Want to Answer and Won’t Even Be Asked" by Andrew J. Bacevich)
- "Tanking" by James Surowiecki in "The New Yorker," Feb 8, 2016
- "From Iran to Nigeria, cheap oil means perilous politics" by Fareed Zakaria in "The Washington Post," Feb 4, 2016
- "What If?" by Thomas L. Friedman in "The New York Times, Jan 20, 2016
- "Saudi Arabia's Dangerous Sectarian Game" by Toby Craig Jones in "The New York Times," Jan 4, 2016
- "Saudi Arabia's Barbaric Executions" by the Editorial Board at "The New York Times," Jan 4, 2016
- "U.S. in a Bind as Saudi Actions Test a Durable Alliance" by David E. Sanger in "The New York Times," Jan 4, 2016
- "Most important Neglected Middle East Stories of 2015" by Juan Cole on "Informed Comment," Dec 31, 2015
- "An Oil-Soaked Globe as Production Keeps Climbing and Demand Falls" by Clifford Krauss in "The New York Times," Nov 13, 2015
- "Israel stakes claim to Golan after oil find" by Jonathan Cook on "Middle East Eye," Nov 13, 2015
- "America Gone Mad" by John LeCarre, 2003, posted on "Snopes.com," March 15, 2008
- "Why the Saudis Are Going Solar" by Jeffrey Ball in "The Atlantic," July/August 2015
- "The Pope and the Planet" by Bill McKibben in "The New York Review of Books," Aug 13, 2015
- "From Russia to Iran, the consequences of the global oil bust" by Fareed Zakaria in "The Washington Post," Aug 20, 2015
- "The Balance of Power in the Middle East Just Changed" by Peter Van Buren on "TomDispatch," July 28, 2015
- "Why ISIL’s Attacks on Shiites of Saudi Arabia Threaten World Economy" by Juan Cole on "InformedComment," May 30, 2015
- "Putin on the Nile: an Isolated Russia Seeks friends in Egypt w/ offer of Nuclear Plant" by Juan Cole on "Informed Comment," Feb 11, 2015
- "How Islamist rebels engineered Israel’s oil grab in Syria" by Nafeez Ahmed on "Middle East Eye," Jan 28, 2015
- "Liquid treasure or trouble? UCLA political scientist explores downside of oil wealth" by Meg Sullivan on the "UCLA Newsroom," Feb 29, 2012
- "Rohani’s outstretched hand" in "The Economist," Oct 4, 2014
- "Climate Change, Dirty Natural Gas, and the Gaza War" by Juan Cole on "Informed Comment," Aug 5, 2014
- "Petrodollars, Petroyuan, and the Ongoing Erosion of American Hegemony" by by Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett on goingtotehran.com, July 30, 2014
- "Pentagon Releases Strategy for Arctic" by Thom Shanker in "The New York Times," Nov 22, 2013
- "Our Gasoline thirst fuels Mideast Fundamentalism, Violence – EVs are the Answer" by Juan Cole on "Informed Comment," Nov 15, 2013
- "US oil output beats imports for first time in 18 years" from the BBC, Nov 13, 2013
- "South Florida Faces Ominous Prospects From Rising Waters" by Nick Madigan in "The New York Times," Nov 10, 2012
- "Empirical evidence that humans are causing global warming" by Graham Wayne on Skeptical Science, Oct 24, 2013
- "US Energy Independence: The Numbers Don’t Add Up" by Kurt Cobb on oilprice.com, Oct 22, 2013
- "Celebrating Dirty Gas & Oil is Our Planet’s Funeral (Klare)" by Juan Cole on "Informed Comment," Oct 16, 2013
- "Top Ten Climate Change Threats being ignored by your Television News" by Juan Cole on "Informed Comment," Oct 10, 2013
- "Provisional Statement on Status of Climate in 2013: Continuing high temperatures globally and many climate extremes worldwide'"on UN.org, Oct 2013
- "How to win the next Mideast war – over water" by Russell Stickler in the "The Christian Science Monitor," Sept 30, 2013
- "The 500 largest corporations in the world" (Fortune Global 500), [undated], 2013
- "Oil for Arms: How Oil Revenues Strengthen Authoritarian Rule in Chad" by Lena Guesnet on "Digital Development Debates," [undated], 2013
- "Why the US needs Electric Cars: Saudi Arabia threatens Pivot away from US," post by Juan Cole on Informed Comment, October 23, 2013.
- "The Last of the Sheiks?," article by Christopher M. Davidson in The New York Times, October 18, 2013
- "Does OPEC still have the U.S. over a barrel?," article by Steven Muson in The Washington Post, October 11, 2013.
- "Scientists Question Impact as Vineyards Turn Up in New Places," by Felicity Barringer in The New York Times, April 8, 2013.
- "What If We Never Run Out of Oil?" by Charles C. Mann in The Atlantic, April 24, 2013.
Energy FAQs
- "Frequently Asked Questions" posted by the U.S. Energy Information Administration, Nov 2013
Partly for fun...
- "Calouste Gulbenkian," Wikipedia entry about an Armenian Businessman and philanthopist who played a major role in making the petroleum reserves of the Middle East available to Western development.
Books:
- Diamond, Jared, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
- Ross, Michael L., The Oil Curse: How Petroleum Wealth Shapes the Development of Nations, Princeton University Press, 2012
- Yergin, Daniel, The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power, 1991
- Yergin, Daniel, The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World, 1991