The End of Oil and Petropolitics in the 21st Century
The End of Oil and Petropolitics in the 21st Century

Summary/Abstract: Is there an energy crisis looming on the horizon? If so, how dire is the forecast and what does it mean for America’s global standing as the world’s hegemon? Maybe a more skeptical—yet logical line of questions—would involve the United States itself acknowledging its position as the world’s dominant nation, its desire to retain the status of the sole superpower and the lengths it may go to in ensuring the maintenance of U.S. hegemony. If the world is dependent on oil, and the world is slowly waking up to the fact that oil is running out and will not continue to be available in the relatively cheap—and seemingly endless—supplies the world has come to know over the last hundred years, will this alter the behavior and attitudes of the United States and, perhaps, those of other states? Does the U.S. opine that the best way to ensure her hegemonic status would be to make sure, first and foremost, that it was never wanton for energy; and secondly, to make sure that potential competitors were?

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