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RISING POWERS SHRINKING PLANET:
Subject RISING POWERS SHRINKING PLANET:
Start Date 04/22/2008
Start Time 6:00 PM
End Date 04/22/2008
End Time 7:30 PM
Location Mark Twain House Visitors Center 351 Farmingon Ave. Hartford
Description Michael Klare
RISING POWERS SHRINKING PLANET:
THE NEW GEOPOLITICS OF ENERGY

From the author of the now-classic Resource Wars, an indispensable account of how the world's diminishing sources of energy are radically changing the international balance of power. Recently, an unprecedented Chinese attempt to acquire the major American energy firm Unocal was blocked by Congress amidst hysterical warnings of a Communist threat. But the political grandstanding missed a larger point: The takeover bid was a harbinger of a new structure of world power, based not on market forces or on arms and armies but on the possession of vital natural resources. Surveying the energy-driven dynamic that is reconfiguring the international landscape, Michael Klare, the preeminent expert on resource geopolitics, forecasts a future of surprising new alliances and explosive danger. World leaders are now facing the stark recognition that all materials vital for the functioning of modern industrial societies (not just oil and natural gas but uranium, coal, copper, and others) are finite and being depleted at an ever-accelerating rate. As a result, governments rather than corporations are increasingly spearheading the pursuit of resources. In a radically altered world — where Russia is transformed from battered Cold War loser to arrogant broker of Eurasian energy, and the United States is forced to compete with the emerging 'Chindia' juggernaut — the only route to survival on a shrinking planet, Klare shows, lies in international cooperation

Tuesday, April 22, 2008
6:00-7:30 pm
Mark Twain House Visitor Center
351 Farmington Ave, Hartford

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