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  • The New Politics of Strategic Resources: Energy and Food Security Challenges in the 21st Century
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  • edited by David Steven, Emily O'Brien, and Bruce D. Jones
  • 2014
  • Published by: Brookings Institution Press
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Since 2008, energy and food markets —those most fundamental to human existence —have remained in turmoil. Resource scarcity has had a much bigger global impact in recent years than has been predicted, with ongoing volatility a sign that the world is only part-way through navigating a treacherous transition in the way it uses resources. Scarcity, and perceptions of scarcity, increase political risks, while geopolitical turmoil exacerbates shortages and complicates the search for solutions.

The New Politics of Strategic Resources examines the political dimensions of strategic resource challenges at the domestic and international levels. For better or worse, energy and food markets are shaped by perceptions of national interest and do not behave as traditional market goods. So while markets are an essential part of any response to tighter resource supplies, governments also will play a key role. David Steven, Emily O'Brien, Bruce Jones, and their colleagues discuss what those roles are and what they should be.

The architecture for coordinating multilateral responses to these dynamics has fallen short, raising questions about the effective international management of these issues. Politics impede here too, as the major powers must negotiate political and security trade-offs to cooperate on the design of more robust international regimes and mechanisms for resource security and the provision of global public goods.

This timely volume includes chapters on major powers (United States, India, China) and key suppliers (Russia, Saudi Arabia). The contributors also address thematic topics, such as the interaction between oil and state fragility; the changing political dynamics of climate change; and the politics of resource subsidies.

Table of Contents

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  1. Front Cover
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  1. Title Page, Copyright Page
  2. pp. i-iv
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. v-vi
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. vii-viii
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  1. 1. Introduction: Energy Policy on the Edge
  2. pp. 1-20
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  1. Part One: The Rising Actors
  1. 2. China's Search for Oil Security: A Critique
  2. Andrew B. Kennedy
  3. pp. 23-39
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  1. 3. Materials, Markets, Multilateralism: A Strategic Approach to India's Resource Challenges
  2. David Steven and Arunabha Ghosh
  3. pp. 40-70
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  1. 4. Brazil's Principled Pragmatism: A Viable Response to the New Geopolitics of Resource Competition?
  2. Antonio Jorge Ramalho
  3. pp. 71-88
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  1. 5. The Big Squeeze: Nigeria on the Brink
  2. Mark Weston
  3. pp. 89-114
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  1. Part Two: Facets of Resource Security
  1. 6. Routes to Energy Security: The Geopolitics of Gas Pipelines between the EU and Its Southeastern Neighbors
  2. Angel Saz-Carranza and Marie Vandendriessche
  3. pp. 117-143
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  1. 7. Energy Rivalry between India and China: Less than Meets the Eye?
  2. C. Raja Mohan and Lydia Powell
  3. pp. 144-167
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  1. 8. Resource Security in Saudi Arabia: Domestic Challenges and Global Implications
  2. Kristian Coates Ulrichsen
  3. pp. 168-186
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  1. 9. Governance for a Resilient Food System
  2. Alex Evans
  3. pp. 187-209
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  1. 10. Water Security: Global Implications and Responses
  2. Daniel Kim Chai Yeo
  3. pp. 210-225
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  1. 11. Oil, Domestic Politics, and International Conflict
  2. Jeff D. Colgan
  3. pp. 226-244
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  1. 12. Russia Gambles on Resource Scarcity: Energy Intrigues in a Time of Political Crisis
  2. Pavel K. Baev
  3. pp. 245-260
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  1. Part Three: The Critical Actor
  1. 13. Challenges to Sustainable Growth after the Great Recession: How America Can Lead
  2. Joshua Meltzer, David Steven, and Claire Langley
  3. pp. 263-317
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  1. 14. Governance Challenges and the Role of the United States in the New Energy Landscape
  2. Kevin Massy
  3. pp. 318-334
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  1. Contributors
  2. pp. 335-336
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 337-365
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  1. Back Cover
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