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
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