Pulitzer Prize-winning author and global energy expert, Daniel Yergin offers a revelatory new account of how energy revolutions, climate battles, and geopolitics are mapping our future

The world is being shaken by the collision of energy, climate change, and the clashing power of nations in a time of global crisis. The "shale revolution" in oil and gas--made possible by fracking technology, but not without controversy--has transformed the American economy, ending the "era of shortage", but introducing a turbulent new era. Almost overnight, the United States has become the world's number one energy powerhouse--and, during the coronavirus crisis, brokered a tense truce between Russia and Saudi Arabia. Yet concern about energy's role in climate change is challenging our economy and way of life, accelerating a second energy revolution in the search for a low carbon future. All of this has been made starker and urgent by the coronavirus pandemic and the economic Dark Age that it has wrought.

The chessboard of world politics has been upended. A new cold war is emerging with China; and rivalries grow more dangerous with Russia, which is pivoting east toward Beijing. Vladimir Putin and China's Xi Jinping are converging both on energy and on challenging American leadership, as China projects its power and influence in all directions. The South China Sea, claimed by China and the world's most critical trade route, could become the arena where the United States and China collide directly. The map of the Middle East, which was laid down after World War I, is being challenged by jihadists, revolutionary Iran, ethnic and religious clashes, and restive populations. But the region has also been shocked by the two recent oil price collapses--one from the rise of shale, the other the coronavirus--and by the very question of oil's future in the rest of this century.

A master storyteller and global energy expert, Daniel Yergin takes the reader on an utterly riveting and timely journey across the world's "new map". He illuminates the great energy and geopolitical questions on the eve of the historic 2020 Presidential election and the profound challenges that lie ahead.

"Recent changes in the global production and flow of energy have remade the world. In this book, the author reveals the forces shaping the future of energy, both renewable and fossil fuel. The New Map offers a new vision of the world's energy reserves and, therefore, the future of geopolitics"--

Introductrion America’s New Map 1. The Gas Man 2. The “Discovery” of Shale Oil 3. “If You Had Told Me Ten Years Ago”: The Manufacturing Renaissance 4. The New Gas Exporter 5. Closing and Opening; Mexico and Brazil 6. Pipeline Battles 7. The Shale Era 8. the Rebalancing of Geopolitics Russia’s Map 9. Putin’s Great Project 10. Crises over Gas 11. Clash over Energy Security 12. Ukraine and New Sanctions 13. Oil and the State 14. Pushback 15. Piviting to the East 16. The Heartland China’s Map 17. The “G2” 18. “Dangerous Ground” 19. The Three Questions 20. “Count on the Wisdom of Following Generations” 21. The Role of History 22. Oil and Water? 23. china’s New Treasure Ships 24. The Test of Prudence 25. Belt and Road Building Map of the Middle East 26. Lines in the Sand 27. Iran’s Revolution 28. Wars in the Gulf 29. A Regional Cold War 30. The Struggle fo Iraq 31. The Arc of Confrontation 32. The Rise of the “Eastern Med” 33. “The Answer” 34. Oil Shock 35. Run for the Future 36. The Plague Roadmap 37. The Electric Charge 38. Enter the Robot 39. Hailing the Future 40. Auto-Tech Climate Map 41. Energy Transition 42. Green Deals 43. The Renewable Landscape 44. Breakthrough Technologies 45. What Does “Energy Transition” Mean the Developing World? 46. The Changing Mix Conclusion: The Disrupted Future Acknowledgements Notes Illustratio nCredits Index