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03185aam a2200361 i 4500 001 983BAD9A6CA011E9A39CB90697128E48 003 SILO 005 20190502010142 008 180130t20192019nyua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2017058658 020 $a 0190699698 020 $a 9780190699697 020 $a 019069968X 020 $a 9780190699680 035 $a (OCoLC)1022075137 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d OCLCQ $d ZYU $d VTU $d UPM $d ERASA $d YDX $d CRU $d UKMGB $d CSA $d NJB $d PUL $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a HD9502 A2 T5175 2019 100 1 $a Thompson, William R., $e author. 245 10 $a Racing to the top : $b how energy fuels systemic leadership in world politics / $c William R. Thompson and Leila Zakhirova. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Oxford University Press, $c [2019] 300 $a viii, 306 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 00 $g 13. $g pt. I $t Denouement: World Politics, Systemic Leadership, and Climate Change. $g 1. $t Systemic Leadership and Energy: The Argument -- $g 2. $t Leadership Long Cycle Framework -- $g 3. $t Revising the Framework: Energy and Eurasian History -- $g pt. II $t PAST -- $g 4. $t Rome as the Pinnacle of the Western Ancient World -- $g 5. $t China: The Incomplete Transition -- $g 6. $t Netherlands: Not Quite the First Modern Economy and Its Immediate Predecessors -- $g 7. $t Britain: The First Modern Industrial Economy: Combining Technology and Energy -- $g 8. $t United States: Emulating and Surpassing Britain -- $g 9. $t Comparing the Four Main Cases -- $g pt. III $t FUTURE -- $g 10. $t Energy, Technology, and (Possibly) the Nature of the Next World Economy Upswing -- $g 11. $t Fracking, Warming, and Systemic Leadership -- $g 12. $t Racing to a Renewable Transition? -- $g 13. $t Denouement: World Politics, Systemic Leadership, and Climate Change. 520 8 $a In the international political economy of the last two millennia, there tends to be one state leading the world as the foremost producer of energy and new technology. In Racing to the Top, William R. Thompson and Leila Zakhirova argue that the US and China, like previous leading countries, rely on energy transition, or the development of alternative energy, in order to make new technology relatively inexpensive to develop and to fuel. While the US has historically held the lead, its edge in the global energy economy appears to be eroding, and as energy leadership diminishes, so does the country's position in world politics. Thompson and Zakhirova take a long view in order to show what will be necessary for a new power to emerge as the system leader, then map a path forward for energy policy. Informed by a deep knowledge of world history, political economy, and environmental technology, this book is the first complete overview of energy transitions over the past thousand years. 650 0 $a Energy policy $v Case studies. 650 0 $a Energy development $v Case studies. 650 0 $a Energy consumption $v Case studies. 700 1 $a Zakhirova, Leila, $e author. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20190605020056.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=983BAD9A6CA011E9A39CB90697128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search