The New Map
The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations
At a time of global crisis, the world is being shaken by the collision of energy, climate change, and the clashing power of nations. Out of this tumult, Daniel Yergin, global energy expert and master story-teller, draws the new map of energy and geopolitics. Controversial fracking technology has enabled the “shale revolution” in oil and gas which almost overnight has made the United States the world’s number one energy powerhouse. Simultaneously, concern about climate change is driving an energy transition in the search for a low-carbon future.
World politics is also being upended, as a new cold war develops between the United States and China and the rivalry grows more dangerous with Russia, which is pivoting east toward Beijing. Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping are converging both on energy and in opposing America’s role in the world, as China projects its power and influence in all directions –especially into the South China Sea, the world’s most critical trade route, where the United States and China could directly collide. The map of the Middle East, which was laid down after the First World War, is being challenged by jihadists, revolutionary Iran and ethnic and religious clashes. The region has also been stunned by the recent oil price collapse - and is increasingly aware of the question over oil’s future in the rest of this century. All of this has been made starker and more urgent by the coronavirus pandemic and the economic dark age that it has wrought.
On the eve of the U.S. presidential election, Daniel Yergin takes the reader on a riveting and timely journey across this new map, illuminating the great issues of geopolitics and energy in our era of rising political turbulence and pointing to the profound challenges that lie ahead.
“A master story-teller. . . one of the great chroniclers of our day. . . Yergin offers us not one map, but an overview of the many maps contending for influence in the world today.”
“ Yergin delivers a fascinating and meticulously researched page-turner. . . Required reading. Another winner from a master.”
“Daniel Yergin has turned his considerable talents to explaining how the world continues to be shaped by oil …. Supremely readable — no mean feat among geostrategy tomes.”
“As Daniel Yergin’ writes in his recent book The New Map. . . climate change will have enormous impact on how energy is produced, transported, consumed, and in strategies and investment, in technology and infrastructure, and in relations between countries.”
“A global, strategic perspective on where the US and the international community are now, how we got here… The New Map chronicles the new era of strategic competition… Do yourself a favor, read this one. You’ll be glad you did”
““At a time when solid facts and reasoned arguments are in retreat, Daniel Yergin rides to the rescue. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author and energy savant… provides an engaging survey course on the lifeblood of modern civilization — where the world has been and where it is likely headed.””
“[A] wonderful book [on] the transformation of the global map of power and wealth that has happened in the 21st century… Just read this to find out what is really happening.”
“The New Map is an admirable, well-researched, highly readable examination of all the changes that have turned the rock-solid certainties of the past into today’s dangerous combustibility.”
“Both brisk and authoritative, an impressive combination.”
“A book about power both in the sense of power as fuel…but also power in the sense of political power.”
“Typical of the tough-minded, realistic approach that Daniel Yergin adopts in The New Map….Daniel Yergin is an insider’s insider. He knows the issues inside and out and most of the major players, too.”
“Energy and geopolitics…If anyone has a front row seat and can explain their unfolding development and can interpret the implications, it is Mr. Yergin….The New Map…explores how developments and technology in energy have transformed geopolitics.”