Summary In recent years, the efforts of nations to promote energy security have been hotly debated. Fuels Paradise examines how five major developed democracies-Britain, France,…
Country or Region: United States
Abstract The Pivot towards the Asia Pacific has been a key component of the grand strategy of the Obama administration. Militarily, the main challenge is…
Summary History has shown that rising powers inevitably trample upon their rival’s natural sphere of Influence. The Indo-Pacific region needs to work towards a security…
Summary Our future depends on what we do about energy. This stark fact, clear since the oil embargo of the 1970s, has been hammered home…
Summary In 2001, Kenneth Deffeyes made a grim prediction: world oil production would reach a peak within the next decade–and there was nothing anyone could…
Summary With world oil production about to peak and inexorably head toward steep decline, what fuels are available to meet rising global energy demands? That…
Summary American interests are increasingly at risk in the South China Sea due to the economic and military rise of China and concerns about its…
Abstract In the new security environment, the U.S. military’s deployments and operations will reflect a greater strategic concern with the balance of power along the…
Abstract The Indian Ocean region (IOR) is fast becoming a major area of global political and security interest. The region’s political and security context is…
Summary The Indian Ocean Region (IOR) is one of the most areas of the world in human terms. This study provides a comprehensive overview of…
Summary While America struggles with a recess ion, oil prices soar, revolution rocks the Middle East, European nations risk defaulting on their loans, and the…
Summary China is pursuing a policy of tailored coercion in the East and South China Seas that is destabilizing the Asia-Pacific region and spurring maritime…
Summary This report addresses the increasingly important set of issues surrounding the nuclear forces of the United States and China. It focuses on a series…
Summary This monograph describes the types of antiaccess measures one particular country—China—might employ in a future conflict with the United States, how these measures might…
Abstract No matter what assurances Washington provides, many in China are concerned that the United States is becoming increasingly uneasy about China’s emergence and will…
