Cărbunele, petrolul, energia atomică - motoare ale dezvoltării, atu și miză în conflictele majore ale lumii moderne
Coal, Oil, Atomic Energy - Engines for Development, Trump and Stake in the Major Conflicts of the Modern World

Summary/Abstract: The study aims to evaluate, in an accurate and flexible way, the increasing role of various types of energy and of different types of fuel on the international arena. In the early stages of the Modern World, energy sources used in peacetime or at war were almost the same which had had been used several thousand years ago. But starting with the second half of the 19th century, this situation is more and more replaced by a new one: First of all coal (used by steam engines of all sorts) and later on oil (and nowadays natural gas and nuclear energy) became more and more important issues on the world arena. Modern warfare means, at any given moment starting with the second half of the 19th century, huge fuel consumption. But industrial production means the same thing. So that both military power and industrial output, significant elements of what Hans J. Morgenthau called national power, rely more and more on large scale access to energy resources. And national power means, above all, increased levels of energy production and energy consumption. In order to support this basic idea, the author uses mainly a lot of examples belonging to the general area we call strategic and military history of the 19th and 20th centuries.

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