Review of Windfall: How the New Energy Abundance Upends Global Politics and Strengthens America’s Power by Meghan O’Sullivan

By: Rachel Hobbs, Lauren Hawley and Daniel O’Connell, GMU Student Contributors

Meghan O’Sullivan’s book “Windfall: How the New Energy Abundance Upends Global Politics and Strengthens America’s Power” (2017) discusses how countries around the world are anticipated to change their strategic interests in the new era of energy abundance marked by the boom in oil and gas production from unconventional oil.

United Nations COP26: Challenges and Advantages of Leapfrogging in Africa

By: Joshua Hurlburt, Center for Energy Science and Policy Graduate Student Fellow

My time in Glasgow attending the United Nations Conference of Parties (COP26) was an eye-opening experience.