World Oil Dynamics: A Consumer Producer Behavioral Order Black Gold Geopolitics and Path to Our Common Energy Security Future with Peace - Volume 1

Augustine A. Ikein

Summary

World Oil Dynamics: A Consumer Producer Behavioral Order makes an introduction of Oil (Black Gold) as strategic resource vital for the survival of Nations (great and small) as a great substance of interest with the belief that without oil all national economies may be grounded to a halt. Hence, oil remains the lubricant to growth and development but no one has realistically put together the unique behavioral patterns of oil consuming and producing countries in the world, such that there has hardly been any move for sustainable cooperative synergy to harness this common interest substance at affordable price for all humanity. The book encourages innovative strategies for shared energy security with peace, asserting that human advancement depends on reliable access to energy.The text navigates through the origins of petroleum endowments and how geopolitical powers use oil as a strategic tool to foster economic, military and diplomatic interests in a way that the Geo-politics of our world is interwoven with the international oil market to influence energy trade relations significant enough to transform oil into a 'weapon of choice' for both producers and consumers alike. The text inspires a dream possibility with a new thinking on pragmatic essentials of cooperation that can make oil affordable for all mankind. This dream possibility of energy cooperation maybe likened to Victor Hugo’s dream brought into reality with the formation of the European Union though doubted in his day for building unity out of the ashes of conflicts, should be exemplary in planning for our common energy security future with peace.Augustine A. Ikein, Ph.D. (Atlanta University) also holds a B.Sc. (Economics) degree from the City University of New York and an MBA (Finance/Management) from Adelphi University, New York and received the FulBright Fellowship Award in 1998. He has been a Professor of Economics, Finance, and Policy Studies in US and Nigerian Institutions. He has held positions of a Dean of Faculty and, Dean of Post Graduate School at different times. He is a recipient of Fellowship Awards namely, International Institute of Management, Fellow Petroleum Institute, University of Port Harcourt in affiliation with Ecole DePetrole, Paris France, Nissan Fellowship. Achievement Award in International Business, University of South Carolina, Economics Fellowship, New York University. UNCF and Lily Fellowship Awards.

Available since: 05/28/2025.

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