List of Energy and the Environment articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Saving Ghana from Itself
In the September/October issue of Foreign Policy, Moisés Naím asks if there's any way oil-rich countries can avoid the resource curse. Ghana, the newest member of the oil-producing club, has a good shot. Maybe.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 No Exit?
Despite a valiant start, impoverished, oil-rich Chad has succumbed to the resource curse. But it's not too late to escape.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Resource Cursed
Equatorial Guinea is perhaps the world's most striking example of why oil hurts, rather than helps, many of the countries that have it. Will the Obama administration stop the country's dictator from sucking its people dry?
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582244_090819_smokestack_istock5.jpg Is a Green World a Safer World?
A guide to the coming green geopolitical crises.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 States of Play
National oil companies control 80 percent of the world's oil. But they're not all the same.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Gas Guzzlers
The Middle East consumes too much oil.
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Joe Raedle/Getty Images Don’t Be Crude
Why Barack Obama's energy-dependence talk is just demagoguery.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 A Hole in the Bucket
How petrostates lost big in the Great Recession.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 How High Will It Go?
How the price of oil might superspike once again.
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Photo by Gisel Florez for FP; Styling by Brady Taylor Wilson Subpriming the Pump
Oil wealth used to hurt only those who had it. Now, it's hurting everyone.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Strait Dope
Why Iran can't cut off your oil.