1. The Geopolitics of Global Energy 2. The Changing Geopolitics of Oil and Gas 3. Oil's New Reality 4. Oil Elites and Transnational Alliances 5. The Scramble for Arctic Oil and Natural Gas 6. The US Energy Complex: The Price of Independence 7. China's Resource Drive into the South China Sea 8. Germany's Transition to Renewable Energy 9. Energy Transition in Japan 10. The New Cost of Plenty