Resource mercantilism and the militarization of resource management: Rising Asia and the future of American primacy in the Persian Gulf

In a broad sense, the “militarization” of resource management describes the growing inclination of energy producers and consumers to base decisions about their behavior in global energy markets on political and strategic calculations as well as on commercial and economic considerations. As this volume attests, the ongoing militarization of resource management is generating profound challenges for American interests around the world, challenges that will shape the US foreign and defense policy agenda for at least the next quarter century.