Is The Energy Map Next On The Neo-Conservative Cartography Agenda?
By Edward L Morse The following article appeared in the latest edition of the quarterly Oxford Energy Forum. Edward L Morse is Executive Adviser at Hess Energy Trading Company and was US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Energy Policy in 1979-81. Reprinted with permission. The paper trail left by what are known as neo-con analysts about their preferred political map of the Middle East is well known. It is built on the twin assumptions that post Cold War geopolitics will remain unipolar for a long time and that the worlds sole hyper power, the US, has the right to recraft the structures of geopolitics to make the world more benign, from its perspective. Globalization has increased the potential for terrorism. Unipolarity, in turn, justifies preemption by the hyper power to contain and eliminate the forces that sponsor it. These new international conditions also justify the policy of regime change and the political engineering of new democratic institutions, whose adv
