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Security Energy Project there. For iraq and afghanistan and has been working on this book for several years and why he decided to write the book. Thanks for spending your time with us. Looking at this intersection with energy so thank you very much for that. Bringing back directly to iraq but after my time how the world needs to be understood by the Foreign Policy lands. From that time i was working in government from the form policy perspective in to meet those saudi officials and i tended to look at that. That seems to be working now. I cannot take any credit for that. We saw the saudi resistance to the regime in baghdad clearly that was some of it with that crisis we can fully appreciate the high eight whale prices they had no rivals in that department becoming challengers 12 Million Barrels a day eventually and from that the need to look at a Foreign Policy lens. At that point there wasnt all energy windfall. What do you mean by the windfall . I wanted to call the book originally s
Business molds designed to lift poor communities out of poverty. That all happens tonight on cspan2s booktv 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books every weekend. Ing television for serious readers. They are running the Global Security project there. The Deputy National security assistant for iraq and afghanistan and spent some time as an advisor in iraq. And has been working on this book for several years times change while you had been working on them. Maybe will talk about how you decided and why did you write the book what keyed it off. Let me begin by saying good afternoon and thank you so much for spending your lunch hour with us in a special thanks to dan for doing this. He has been a source of advice, support and inspiration as i have really moved into this world in looking at this intersection. Thank you very much for that. My impetus for writing the book its almost on reflecting after my time in iraq as to how much the world needs to be understood by a foreignpolicy lunch an
The new Energy Abundance upends Global Politics and strengthens americas power. We have the author here of course, meghan osullivan. Meghan is now a professor at the Harvard Kennedy school and once the Global Energy security project to bear. She was a special assistant to president george w. Bush and Deputy National security assistant for iraq and afghanistan, and spent some time as an advisor in iraq and has been working on this book for several years. Time has changed while you been working often. Maybe well start by just talking about how you decided and why you decided to write the book. Let me just begin by saying good afternoon and thanks so much for spending your lunch hour with us, and a special thanks to dan for doing this. Dan has been a source of advice, support and inspiration as i really moved into this world and looking at this intersection between energy and politics, so thank you very much for that. My impetus for writing the book, i wouldnt go back directly to iraq but
Some of which have been growing at negative rates and are expected to bounce back. Other than that, theres more growth momentum in the advanced economies in china. Wide dispersion of multiple outcomes around the projections, especially given we dont yet know the details of president elect Donald Trumps policies . Absolutely. We think the uncertainty has risen and we still see the risks as pointed toward the downside. Its not just about the u. S. Certainly theres a lot of uncertainty about what the policy package coming out of washington will look like, but in europe, theres a crowded electoral calendar going forward. Details of the brexit negotiation are not known. We may learn more tomorrow and think aboutt to when we try to forecast next year. Its worth thinking about the spillovers of trumps changing policy mix of which we only have notions right now. We are talking about global inflation rising and trump listing all boats. Is that the case . Does a rising trump tied raise all econo