Daniel Yergin

How China's party-led planning stitches together industrial policy, energy security, and coercive trade into a strategy for reducing dependence and projecting influence abroad.

Six books that explain how the Iran war, the Strait of Hormuz, and decades of oil-driven rivalry shape the diplomacy and energy shocks playing out right now.

Long-range strikes, toxic fallout, and a wobbling Victory Day ritual are testing Kremlin legitimacy, and these books explain how Russia's war is reshaping life inside its borders.

Solar just outproduced coal in the US, and these books explain the policy choices, grid upgrades, and supply-chain pressures that will decide how far the shift goes.

Books that explain how Qatar turned liquefied natural gas wealth into institutional resilience, diversified trade routes, and geopolitical leverage that outlasts regional shocks.

Kharg Island handles nearly all of Iran's crude exports, and the books on this shelf explain why attacks on small maritime nodes like it send shockwaves through global energy markets and great-power strategy.

Books that explain how the American electrical grid got so fragile, why windstorms still knock out power for tens of thousands, and what policy and preparedness choices could change the pattern.