Pulitzer Prize-winning author and global energy expert, Daniel Yergin offers a revelatory new account of how energy revolutions, climate battles, and geopolitics are mapping our future
The world is being shaken by the collision of energy, climate change, and the clashing power of nations. The "shale revolution" in oil and gas--made possible by fracking technology, but not without controversy--has transformed the American economy, ending the "era of shortage." Almost overnight, the United States has become the world's number one energy powerhouse, ahead of Saudi Arabia and Russia, upending the chessboard of global politics. Yet concern about energy's role in climate change is roiling global calculations, challenging industries and our way of life, and accelerating a second energy revolution--the quest for renewables.
These developments are shattering longstanding assumptions about the global order. A new type of cold war is emerging. Despite sanctions, Russia is exerting influence around the world and pivoting east toward China. Vladimir Putin and China's Xi Jinping are uniting to challenge American leadership. China is projecting its power and influence in all directions as it struggles to meet its energy needs in what will soon become the world's largest economy. It lays claim to much of the South China Sea, the world's most critical trade route. The map of the Middle East laid down after World War I is being attacked by jihadists and Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps. That entire region is struggling to come to grips with the recent oil price collapse caused by the rise of shale. And pandemic is challenging the map of globalization.
Daniel Yergin brilliantly reveals and explains the "new map" to show the great energy and geopolitical transformations looming for Americans and the world--at the very moment they influence the 2020 presidential election. With magisterial research and narrative skill, The New Map tells a gripping global story, both sweeping and meticulous, in which world leaders clash and history is made. It could not be more timely.
