Review: Oil and the Great Powers: Britain and Germany, 1914 to 1945
Opinion
For the past two hundred years, fossil fuel resources have bestowed global power. Britain became the first global hegemon in
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In wasting oil wealth, Baghdad and the KRG have more in common than meets the eye
Opinion
With the slump in oil prices, and some analysts forecasting prices to head towards $10 per barrel, yet more hard
What can we learn from the Great Depression about oil’s future?
Opinion
In 1929, U.S. stock markets crashed, scything personal fortunes and birthing the most devastating global economic depression since the 1870s-1880s.
COVID-19’s forced de-globalization will rewire and decarbonize energy
Environment
Climate change may be the most intractable psychological-sociological challenge that humanity has ever encountered. It has been occurring for decades
The Russian-Saudi OPEC divorce and the battle for market share
Opinion
Marriage is a non-binding contract. Each party is free to walk away from it. Its dissolution, however, always has consequences.
Book review: Enduring lessons in The Rise and Fall of OPEC
Opinion
“The history of OPEC proves that there is no inherent contradiction between defending national interests (the role of nation-states as
Could coronavirus cause China’s oil demand to plateau?
Consumption
The coronavirus (Covid-19) is upending two fundamental tenets of globalization: flow of people and goods and a booming Chinese economy.
A top-ten book list for energy history, policy and geopolitics
Opinion
In January 2019, I embarked on the journey of reading and reviewing a new energy book every month, so it
Energy coercion is compelling Chinese-Russian rapprochement
Opinion
In July 1941, the Japanese empire, dependent on the United States for the oil imports that powered its military, faced
Saudi oil patience in the age of plenty
Opinion
We are living in an age of plenty, at least when it comes to oil. There is more production globally
Does Senegal’s petro-scandal break with African precedents?
Policy
When a recent BBC investigation alleged corruption behind the allocation of energy contracts for gas fields off the coast of
Book review: America’s Christianity-and-crude cocktail explained in Anointed with Oil
Industry
“In his keynote address [to the American Petroleum Institute in 1941], [Henry Luce, founder of Life Magazine and the term
The Libyan oil era is over
Opinion
For decades, Libyan oil has been a linchpin of European oil-supply security. In 2011, the British and French even went
Yearning for Euro-denominated oil
Opinion
Last September, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker proposed a bold idea. “We must do more to allow our single currency
Energy conjoins NATO, 70 years later
Opinion
On April 4, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) celebrated its 70th birthday in Washington in rather ho-hum fashion. The