OIL, OIL POLITICS
June, 2006
Taxes and Charges to Manage Oil Demand in Australia: Policy Recommendations for the Australian Government
Discussion Paper
Assesses the options available to the Australian federal government to reduce demand for gasoline and diesel through taxation and charges
May 2006
China Shifts Gears: Automakers, Oil, Pollution, and Development
Book
By Kelly Sims Gallagher, Senior Associate, Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group
In China Shifts Gears, Kelly Sims Gallagher identifies an unprecedented opportunity for China to "shift gears" and avoid the usual problems associated with the automobile industry while spurring economic development.
May 2006
"Book review - China: 'The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenge to China's Future' by Elizabeth C. Economy"
Journal Article, The Journal of Asian Studies, issue 2, volume 65
By Kelly Sims Gallagher, Senior Associate, Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group
Gallagher reviews Elizabeth Economy's book on the state of the environment in China.
April 13, 2006
"Tame Oil's Wild Price Ride with a Tax"
Op-Ed, Christian Science Monitor
By Henry Lee, Director, Environment and Natural Resources Program
Volatile oil prices keep energy companies from investing in alternatives. With the onslaught of high oil prices, war in the Middle East, an increasingly bellicose Iran, and the aftermath of hurricane Katrina, energy security has reemerged as a major public policy priority.
April 10, 2006
Getting Tough Could Save Innocent Lives
Op-Ed, Boston Globe
By Robert Rotberg, Director, Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution
Seeking an effective end to the murderous mayhem in Darfur is representative of the few truly moral foreign policy initiatives of the Bush administration.
AP Photo
April-June 2006
"Turkey's Energy Policies in a Tight Global Energy Market"
Journal Article, Insight Turkey, issue 2, volume 8
By Brenda Shaffer, Former Research Fellow, International Security Program, 1999–2007; Former Research Director, Caspian Studies Program, 2000–2005; Former Research Director, Caspian Studies Project, 2005–2007
Despite this extensive activity in the energy sphere, it seems, however, that Ankara's energy policy has been undertaken without a strategic plan and with little integration of energy issues into Turkey's overall foreign and security policies.
Spring 2006
"The Energy Innovation Imperative: Addressing Oil Dependence, Climate Change, and Other 21st Century Energy Challenges"
Journal Article, Innovations, issue 2, volume 1
By John P. Holdren, Former Director and Faculty Chair, Science, Technology and Public Policy Program
Society faces many energy challenges in this century, but "running out" of energy resources in a global or absolute sense is not one of them.
March 23, 2006
"The Israel Lobby"
Magazine or Newspaper Article, London Review of Books, issue 6, volume 28
By John J. Mearsheimer, Editorial Board Member, Quarterly Journal: International Security and Stephen M. Walt, Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Affairs; Faculty Chair, International Security Program
"The combination of unwavering support for Israel and the related effort to spread ‘democracy’ throughout the region has inflamed Arab and Islamic opinion and jeopardised not only US security but that of much of the rest of the world."
March 13, 2006
"The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy"
Working Paper
By John J. Mearsheimer, Editorial Board Member, Quarterly Journal: International Security and Stephen M. Walt, Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Affairs; Faculty Chair, International Security Program
"The U.S. national interest should be the primary object of American foreign policy."
February 27, 2006
The Wrong Way of Thinking about Oil
Op-Ed, The Korea Herald
By Joseph S. Nye, Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor
