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Watch Steve LeVine discuss The Oil and the Glory on YouTube.
The struggle for Caspian energy resources is a modern version of the 19th Century's Great Game, now being played over the lands of the Caucasus and Central Asia. With enormous fortunes at stake, giant energy companies jockey for position in the rich Kazakh and Azeri oilfields, while superpowers seek to gain a strategic foothold in the region and to keep each other in check. At the heart of the story is the contest to build and operate the energy pipelines out of the landlocked region, the key to controlling the Caspian and its oil.
The Oil and the Glory is the gripping account of this latest phase in the struggle for control of the Earth's "black gold." Steve LeVine describes the people, governments and events that are understood by few, but whose political and economic impact will be both profound and lasting.
Steve LeVine is a Dallas-based energy correspondent for The Wall Street Journal. Based in Almaty and Baku, LeVine was the Central Asia - Caucasus correspondent for The Wall Street Journal bureau, The New York Times, Newsweek and Financial Times for over 11 years. As the correspondent in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Steve resided in Peshawar from 1989-1991. He was the Philippines correspondent for Newsday and The Chicago Tribune while in Manila from 1985-1988.
A gripping account of a fascinating - and little known - region. LeVine brings to life the tycoons, inventors, politicians and crooks of the Caspian. The result is a vivid, compelling, and wonderfully written account of a crucial part of the world. Joseph E. Stiglitz, 2001 Nobel laureate in economics
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