Energy Security 2.0: How Energy is Central to the Changing Global Balance in the New Age of Geography

Energy Security 2.0 is a term to express how some very new and profoundly strategic patterns of global change are emerging. They are occurring particularly in how we use energy, and how modern society has come to integrate energy as the key determinant of the survival of urban-dominated states. Moreover, as this study shows, geography temporarily sidelined as the core strategic constant during the brief period of globalization has once again become a basic element of emerging social and power balance changes. One of the themes of this study is the evolution of the Eurasian continental states as an increasingly integrated bloc, and the separate evolution of maritime powers. These groups have different outlooks on governance, commerce, and, in some respects, energy systems. The name of this study Energy Security 2.0 says that the world is in a totally new generation; a new era. The book is absolutely a focus on context: historical, geopolitical, social, and security context. The book delivers something which is, for the first time, both global in perspective and also rising above a preoccupation with the material origins of energy sources, and particular energy forms, and the means of achieving the security of delivering energy. The authors have shown where the world is going in terms of why and how energy dependency has evolved in modern (ie: urbanized, neo-post-industrial) society, and why this reality is very different from the world of even a few decades past.