Foreword by Doug Casey ix
Acknowledgments xv
Chapter 1 The End of the Lost Decade 1
Chapter 2 Humbling the Oligarchs 17
Chapter 3 The Great Game and the End of the Cold War 39
Chapter 4 The Slavic Warrior 55
Chapter 5 Ukraine 65
Chapter 6 Putin the Statesman 83
Chapter 7 The Putinization of Oil 91
Chapter 8 The Putinization of Gas 107
Chapter 9 The Putinization of Uranium 123
Chapter 10 The Middle East: Oil, Wars, and the Great Game 141
Chapter 11 Twilight of the Petrodollar 195
Chapter 12 Post-Petrodollar America 211
Afterword 223
References 225
About the Author 231
Index 233