Energy Kingdoms: Oil and Political Survival in the Persian Gulf 1st edition by Jim Krane 0231548923 9780231548922

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• ISBN 10: 0231548923
• ISBN 13: 9780231548922
• Author: Jim

After the discovery of oil in the 1930s, the Gulf monarchies—Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Bahrain—went from being among the world’s poorest and most isolated places to some of its most ostentatiously wealthy. To maintain support, the ruling sheikhs provide their subjects with boundless cheap energy, unwittingly leading to some of the highest consumption rates on earth. Today, as summertime temperatures set new records, the Gulf’s rulers find themselves caught in a dilemma: can they curb their profligacy without jeopardizing the survival of some of the world’s last absolute monarchies? In Energy Kingdoms, Jim Krane takes readers inside these monarchies to consider their conundrum.

Table of contents:

1. Before Oil

2. The Oil Age Arrives

3. The Big Payback

4. From Energy Poverty to Energy Extremism

5. Unnaturally Cool

6. We Have a Serious Problem

7. Iran and Dubai Lead the Way

8. Shifting Gears in Saudi Arabia

9. The Politics of Reform

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