Table of Contents

List of Figures. Introduction Part I: Oil and the Pipelines 1. The Underground Genie: Origin and the Coming End of Oil 2. Oil Pipes: Containers and Carriers Part II: The Gulf: Oil Epicentre 3. Saudi Arabia: Swings, Surges and Wars 4. Iraq: Wars, Kurds and the Islamic State Part III: Pipelines and Protests 5. The US: Protests over the Dakota Access Pipeline 6. Canada: Export, Import and Domestic Pipelines Part IV: Richly Endowed, Stringently Restrained 7. Russia: Friendship to Business like Any Other 8. Iran: Sanctioned and Stifled. Conclusions. Abbreviations. Bibliography.

About the Author

Gulshan Dietl retired as a Professor at the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, where she also served as the Director of the Gulf Studies Programme and the Chairperson of the Centre for West Asian and African Studies. Her recent publications include Contemporary Saudi Arabia and the Emerging Indo-Saudi Relations (2007), Democracy and Democratization in the Gulf (2010), and India and the Global Game of the Gas Pipelines (2017).

Reviews

‘A green transition may be underway, but for decades to come oil will remain critical to energy security and geopolitics. From America to China, Dietl deftly unpacks the complexities of a modern era of pipeline politics.’ Luke Patey, Danish Institute for International Studies, Denmark and Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, UK ‘Dietl has done it again – analyzed global oil pipeline politics with disarming ruthlessness, delightful sarcasm, diligent attention to detail, all these peppered with droll and insightful quotes from the doyens of the oil industry. Industry insiders will get new nuggets from this book while for the uninitiated, this book offers a crash course on the vice-like stranglehold of oil pipelines on the global economy.’Sudha Mahalingam, independent energy consultant and former energy regulator, India