Energy

Saving Ghana from Itself

In the September/October issue of Foreign Policy, Moisés Naím asks if there's any way oil-rich countries can avoid the resource curse. Ghana, the newest member of the oil-producing club, has a good shot. Maybe.

BY TODD MOSS | SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

No Exit?

Despite a valiant start, impoverished, oil-rich Chad has succumbed to the resource curse. But it's not too late to escape.

BY LOUISE ARBOUR | SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

Is a Green World a Safer World?

A guide to the coming green geopolitical crises.

BY DAVID J. ROTHKOPF | SEPT. / OCT. 2009

States of Play

National oil companies control 80 percent of the world's oil. But they're not all the same. 

BY VALERIE MARCEL | SEPT. / OCT. 2009

How High Will It Go?

How the price of oil might superspike once again.

BY THE MCKINSEY GLOBAL INSTITUTE | SEPT. / OCT. 2009

Subpriming the Pump

Oil wealth used to hurt only those who had it. Now, it's hurting everyone.

BY MAHMOUD A. EL-GAMAL, AMY MYERS JAFFE | SEPT. / OCT. 2009

Scenes from the Violent Twilight of Oil

It succors and drowns human life. And for the last eight years, oil -- and the people and places that make it -- was my obsession.

BY PETER MAASS | SEPT. / OCT. 2009

The Great Pipeline Opera

Inside the European pipeline fantasy that became a real-life gas war with Russia.

BY DANIEL FREIFELD | SEPT. / OCT. 2009

Seven Myths About Alternative Energy

As the world looks around anxiously for an alternative to oil, energy sources such as biofuels, solar, and nuclear seem like they could be the magic ticket. They're not. 

BY MICHAEL GRUNWALD | SEPT. / OCT. 2009

Scenes from the Violent Twilight of Oil

Oil may be making its long goodbye, but twilight or not, the Oil Age still defines our world.

SEPT. / OCT. 2009

Beijing's Tehran Temptation

There's no reason to panic about a China-Iran energy deal.

BY ERICA DOWNS | JULY 30, 2009

Brazil's Blessing in Disguise

How Lula turned an HIV crisis into a geopolitical opportunity.

BY EDUARDO J. GÓMEZ | JULY 22, 2009

Think Again: The Green Economy

Going green has finally gone mainstream, and politicians from London to Seoul are spending billions on clean technologies they say will create jobs. But unless we are all willing to risk a little more pain, the green revolution could founder before it ever really starts.

BY MATTHEW E. KAHN | APRIL 15, 2009

Grand Theft Solar

After years of slow growth in solar use, a rash of solar panel theft on five continents suggests that the alternative power source may finally be catching on.

JANUARY 5, 2009

Putin's Useful Idiots

Wonder why Russia has Europe over a barrel? Ask German environmentalists.

BY WILLIAM YEATMAN | OCTOBER 7, 2008

Think Again: Oil

It protects wealthy autocrats, poisons the environment, and fuels international conflicts. Yet it won't be the false threat of scarcity or the rise of an Asian energy axis that convinces the world to finally kick the oil habit. An auto revolution courtesy of Silicon Valley and Shanghai may deliver an end to the defining addiction of our age.

BY VIJAY V. VAITHEESWARAN | OCTOBER 11, 2007

Full of Hot Air?

OCTOBER 11, 2007

A Chorus of Solutions

There are no easy solutions. We may have to try them all at once.

BY THOMAS HOMER-DIXON | APRIL 18, 2007

Flip the Switch

Nearly all the world's oil will soon be in the hands of unreliable autocrats. It's time we went electric.

BY AMY MYERS JAFFE | MARCH 31, 2007

Think Again: Energy Independence

High oil prices have everyone talking about energy independence again. But a look at the numbers reveals the vaunted goal is an illusion. And conservation isn't the answer, either. The sooner we realize it, the sooner we can talk about real solutions to the energy crisis.

BY PHILIP J. DEUTCH | NOVEMBER 9, 2005

Pipe Dreams in Iraq

Why won't the U.S. occupation of Iraq transform global oil markets? Ask Saudi Arabia.

BY VIJAY V. VAITHEESWARAN | SEPTEMBER 1, 2003

Read and Reactor

JANUARY 1, 2001