This book provides the reader with a lucid, authoritative and comprehensive analysis of the causes, and ways to overcome, the climate change crisis. It integrates the political and the economic, the empirical and the normative, and is an essential primer for an in-depth understanding of one of the greatest challenges of our age. -- Roland Dannreuther, University of Westminster, UK This important and timely book puts energy at the center of the climate challenge, and highlights the central role of politics in overcoming it. A comprehensive, profound and inspiring book from one of the finest energy thinkers in political science. -- Andreas C. Goldthau, University of Erfurt, Germany