Introduction -- The nature of a political resource -- Capturing oil -- Marketing oil -- Living with oil -- Securing oil -- Developing through oil -- Governing oil -- Better and beyond: the future of oil

The US set an oil export ban after the Iranian crisis in the 1970s due to energy security issues. Since US oil production has been continuously diminishing, there had not been many issues until recently. However, after the hydraulic fracturing technology was introduced to development of shale in...