Investigating the relationship between the emergence of a multipolar world order and the enormous challenges of global energy governance that the world is facing in the 21st century, this volume reflects on fundamental questions such as how the main consuming countries can avoid conflict over scarce resources, how they will cooperate to bring about open energy markets, energy conservation and efficiency, and how they can promote renewable energy sources.

Dries Lesage, Professor, Department of Political Science, Ghent University, Belgium, Thijs Van de Graaf, Ph.D. fellowship of the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO), Department of Political Science, Ghent University, Belgium and Kirsten Westphal, Ph.D., Senior Associate, Global Issues Division, German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), Berlin, Germany

Chapter 1 Introduction; Part I Global Energy Governance Today; Chapter 2 The Global Energy Challenge; Chapter 3 Blueprint for a Global Sustainable Energy Regime; Chapter 4 The Institutional Landscape of Global Energy Governance; Part II Bringing in Multipolarity; Chapter 5 Major Power Concerts and Global Energy Governance; Chapter 6 The Players of the Multipolar Energy Game; Chapter 7 The G8's Track Record in Global Energy Governance; Part III Conclusions; Chapter 8 G8 Leadership in Global Energy Governance; Chapter 9 Prospects for Energy Cooperation in a Multipolar World;