Introduction -- Energy security : the current approaches of scholarship -- U.S.-Russia energy ties -- U.S.-Azerbaijan … energy diplomacy : BTC and beyond -- Russia-Germany energy cooperation -- The Ukraine conflict : a game …

"This book examines the history of oil in the United States and Azerbaijan during the nineteenth century, when the two … that is now the independent state of Azerbaijan. Many people don't know that the world's first industrial oil well was … drilled in Azerbaijan in 1846, thirteen years before Drake's celebrated well in Pennsylvania. This book covers oil in the …