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NEW INTERNATIONAL ENERGY ORDER
Klare, Michael T. Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet: The New Geopolitics of Energy. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2008. 352pp. $26
In this timely volume, Michael Klare, author of thirteen books, including Resource Wars and Blood and Oil, provides in-depth projections of global demand and supply for all forms of energy, including petroleum, natural gas, coal, and uranium. A key theme is the confluence of two troubling trends. The first is the unprecedented height of future energy demand (one estimate foresees a 57 percent increase in global...