"Steve A. Yetiv, an award-winning expert on the geopolitics of oil, takes stock of our new era of heightened petroleum production and sets out to demolish both the old myths and misconceptions about oil as well as the new ones that are quickly proliferating"--

Intro -- Oil, Globalization, and the War for the Arctic Refuge -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part 1. Oil and the Corporate State -- 1. Globalism, Oil, and the Power Elites -- 2. Background to Battle: The Thirty Years' War -- 3. The Oil Companies: A Legacy of Global Power -- 4. The...

Key Features:An examination of China's political and conceptual metamorphosis of self-reliance to internationalizationA unique and refreshing monograph examining China's oil developmental historyReferences drawn from both English and Chinese primary sources.

A Prelude to the Foundation of Political Economy is a groundbreaking volume of theory and strategy on political economy and polity of the twenty-first century. Distilled in concrete terms, it elucidates the enigma of oil in view of the centrality of global social relations.