Asia-Pacific reporter Marcus Gee says that Japan's effort to control its energy use is impressive.

Dilip Hiro says that countries must handle rising oil prices with energy efficiency and alternative sources.

The world has grown much more peaceful over the past 15 years -- except for oil-rich countries. Oil wealth often wreaks havoc on a country's economy and politics, helps fund insurgents, and aggravates ethnic grievances. And with oil ever more in demand, the problems it spawns are likely to spread further.

Jeroen Van der Veer, the CEO of Royal Dutch Shell, on global oil demand, the end of “easy oil,” and nationalized oil companies.

Listen to Jeroen van der Veer, CEO of Royal Dutch Shell, discuss the various global factors influencing the energy market and implications for the next fifty years.

Watch Jeroen van der Veer, CEO of Royal Dutch Shell, discuss the various global factors influencing the energy market and implications for the next fifty years.

In this article for Newsweek, David Victor says that the deeper cause of China's recent power crisis lies in the fact that China's free-market policies—the same ones that led to China's extraordinary growth in the past decade—have eroded the government's ability to control its economy. In fact, the big challenge in the coming Asian century may not be China and India's burgeoning strength but their weakness.

Carlos Pascual examines the impact of energy dependency and what efforts ensuring future sustainability, prosperity, and security will involve.

Pierre Noël argues that U.S. dreams about energy independence lead to expensive policies with no real energy security benefits.

Walter Russell Mead writes that “few subjects matter as much as oil, the Persian Gulf and American foreign policy. But few subjects are less well understood.”

Sen. Richard Lugar’s (R-IN) Dec. 18 address at the Brookings Institution on U.S. energy vulnerability and the challenges facing the next president.

The vice chairman of Chevron Corporation analyzes the prospects for global oil production over the next few decades.

Peter J. Robertson, the vice chairman of Chevron Corporation, discusses the likelihood of global oil production meeting demand in the decades to come.

This article analyzes the recent studies on Iraq's oil reserves.

This MIT study examines the role of coal as an energy source in a world where constraints on carbon emissions are adopted to mitigate global warming.

In this piece for The National Interest, David Victor looks at imagined wars that could erupt as China and India scramble for oil, as well as the various hypotheses surrounding the possibility that climate change could trigger conflicts over water and other scarce resources. He argues that "resource wars" are rising in the public imagination yet are unlikely to occur in reality.