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Energy Cooperation in the Western Hemisphere examines the state of energy cooperation among Western Hemisphere oil and natural gas producers and the opportunities for greater cooperation. The result of more than two years of extensive in-country research and interviews with key stakeholders including governments and major oil and gas interests, the study is distinguished by its comprehensive approach and detailed country-by-country analysis of current conditions and future projects. Sidney Weintraub and his coauthors examine the critical historical factors, technical challenges, dangerous conditions, and political tensions, divisions, and disagreements that have hampered hemispheric cooperation. The authors offer predictions and suggestions in hopes of stimulating dispassionate discussion in the countries themselves and contributing toward a more stable, energy-cooperative hemisphere
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In conducting the research that resulted in this volume, chief editor Weintraub (political economy, Center for Strategic and International Studies) and his collaborators were guided by the twin, if sometimes conflicting assumptions, that the countries of the Americas can benefit if they can establish energy policy cooperation and that political and historical relations between these countries can often impede such cooperation. They review relevant political, economic, and social issues for the countries that produce exportable quantities of oil and gas--Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, the United States, and Venezuela--and also provide coverage of the energy policies of the North American Free Trade Agreement countries (Canada, Mexico, and the United States) in relation to each other. The further examine comparative legal and regulatory regimes for energy, the energy roles of China and India in the western hemisphere, the hemispheric infrastructure for the transport of oil and gas, and sources of future oil and gas supply. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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