The Risk Pivot: Great Powers, International Security, And The Energy Revolution

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.

• | Author: Bruce D. Jones|David Steven
• | Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
• | Publication Date: Nov 21, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 215 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 081572604X
• | ISBN-13: 9780815726043