Global Insecurity: A Strategy for Energy and Economic Upheaval; The Critical Link: Energy and National Security in the 1980s; Energy Vulnerability

These are three of the better books on energy. Inevitably, such collections overlap. These all favor stockpiles, increased international cooperation and, above all, taking energy seriously as a continuing problem. Plummer and his group work from a model that is helpful for thinking about supply disruptions. Ebinger and his Georgetown colleagues stress the larger political and security dimension. The Yergin and Hillenbrand volume, which has sponsors in a number of countries, is broadest of all. Using upper and lower projections of supply and demand, several authors have cogent things to say about the long-run political, economic and social effects of the great energy shift.