Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- PART ONE: FROM HAMMURABI TO NAPOLEON -- 1. Just a Commodity -- Oil and the US Military -- Economic Impact of Changing Oil Prices -- Energy and War -- Resource Wars -- The Broader Context -- Endnotes -- 2. Slaves, Gold, and Silver -- Slaves, Serfs, and Peasants -- Organization of Human Energy -- Precious Metals and the Money Supply -- Silver, Trade, and War -- Dutch Wind and Water -- Endnotes -- 3. Sources of Conflict Until the Concert of Europe -- Wars over Territory and Trade in Europe and Asia -- Plunder, Trade, and Territory in Pre-colonial Africa -- Napoleon Bonaparte -- Why Wars Were Fought -- Things Change with Time -- Historical Importance of the Demographic Transition -- Theories of Conflict -- Endnotes -- PART TWO: COAL AND NON-ENERGY MINERALS -- 4. Steamer Coal in the Colonial Era -- Coal, Naval Power, and 19th Century Colonialism -- The Rise and Decline of South Wales Coal Exports -- Endnotes -- 5. Franco-Prussian War Sets the Stage -- Preludes to the Franco-Prussian War -- Germany -- Alsace-Lorraine -- Thomas-Gilchrist and Steel -- French vs German Production -- Endnotes -- 6. Coal and Iron in the Great War -- Industrial Revolution in Britain -- United States after the Civil War -- The Struggle of Nations -- Endnotes -- 7. Coal in Asia before WWII -- Transpacific Cable and US Naval Coal -- German Naval Pipedreams -- Manchuria -- Endnotes -- 8. Coal, Steel, Customs, and the EU -- Prelude to the European Coal and Steel Community -- From ECSC to the EU Enlargement of 2007 -- Endnotes -- 9. Conflict over other Solid Mineral Resources -- Nitrates and the War of the Pacific -- Phosphates -- Copper, Counterrevolution, and Secessionists -- Other Non-Carbon Minerals -- Conflict Diamonds -- Coltan -- Historical Legacy and the Future of Platinum -- Endnotes.

10. An End to Cross-border Warfare over Solid Minerals? -- Endnote -- PART THREE: OIL -- 11. Oil and Commerce -- Monopoly and Cartel -- Standard Oil -- Origins and Fate of the "Seven Sisters" -- Endnotes -- 12. Oil from WWI to WWII -- Oil and War From 1911 Through WWI -- Romania's Miscalculation -- Oil after WWI -- Endnotes -- 13. Oil and World War II -- Italy in Africa -- Sources of WWII in Europe -- Why did Germany Repeat Napoleon's Catastrophe? -- Why Did the Tide of War Turn in 1942? -- Why Did Japan Attack Pearl Harbor? -- "Process Theory" for Organizational Dysfunction -- Perceptions of the Military Importance of Oil -- Endnotes -- 14. Before the Iran-Iraq War -- Oil Demand and Supply -- Suez Crisis and Second Arab-Israeli War -- OPEC -- Third (Six-Day) Arab-Israeli War -- Fourth (Yom-Kippur) Arab-Israeli War -- Adjustment, Second Shock, and Great Panic -- Endnotes -- 15. Iran and Iraq -- Iran and the United States -- Iran-Iraq War -- Endnotes -- 16. Gulf War I -- Kuwait -- Iraqi Unconventional Weapons before 1990 -- Nuclear Threat Justification for Countering Iraq -- Options for Keeping Iraq Disarmed -- Endnotes -- 17. Sanctions and Inspections -- What Iraq Actually Had in 1990 -- Sanctions and Inspections: 1995-1998 -- End of the First Round of Inspections -- Impact on Palestine and Iran -- Endnotes -- 18. Iraq after 9/11/01 -- Regime Change: From Heresy to Shadow Cabinet Policy -- Smart Sanctions -- Regime Change Becomes Policy -- Presenting the Case for War -- Re-Examining Powell's Case for War -- Initial Outcome of the Occupation of Iraq -- All the King's Horses -- The Surge -- Endnotes -- 19. Oil and War -- Endnotes -- PART FOUR: URANIUM, NATURAL GAS, AND RENEWABLES -- 20. France and Uranium -- French Security Strategy -- French Nuclear Electricity -- Uranium for France -- What Motivated de Gaulle's Nuclear Policies? -- Endnotes.

21. French Neocolonialism in Africa -- French Colonialism and Neocolonialism in Africa -- Niger -- France's Africa Policy after the CTBT -- Endnotes -- 22. Natural Gas Resources and Transport -- National Systems and Regional Cooperation -- Natural Gas Deposits -- US Regulatory Constraints -- Europe Approaches Deregulation -- Asian Gas Pipelines -- South America -- Gas Pipelines and Security -- Endnotes -- 23. Liquefied Natural Gas and Security Developments -- Historical Liquefied Natural Gas Trade -- Natural Gas Depletion -- LNG and Nuclear Power -- LNG and War versus Oil and War -- Endnotes -- 24. Hydropower -- Dams -- Early Hydropower -- South America -- South Asia -- Nile Basin -- Turkey -- Water for Agriculture -- International War versus Internal Conflict -- Endnotes -- 25. Other Renewable Resources -- Wind and Sun -- Reserves versus Resources -- Renewable Energy and Security -- Virgin Timber and Renewable Land Use -- Biofuels for Transportation -- Endnotes -- 26. It's about Oil -- Endnote -- PART FIVE: THE FUTURE -- 27. Troubled Producers -- Endnotes -- 28. Uncoordinated Consumers -- Energy Policy -- Politics of US Transportation Sector Subsidies and Mandates -- US Energy Bill of 2007 -- Petroleum Stocks -- Prices Drive Technology Choices: Israel -- Biofuels in the European Union and the United States -- Automobile Fuel Efficiency in India and China -- Energy Price Controls in China -- Prospects for More Coordinated Action by Oil Importers -- Endnotes -- 29. Spoilers -- Hamas, Hezbollah, and al Qaeda -- A Life of Its Own -- Settlements in the Occupied Territories -- Israel, Palestine, and US Politics -- Durability of the Long War -- Endnotes -- 30. Transition to Sustainability -- Recurring Middle East Wars -- Looking Deeper into the Crystal Ball -- Nuclear Energy and Nuclear Deterrence -- Natural Resources and International War -- Endnotes.

Bibliography -- Index.