Dr. Paul Chastko specializes in the history of the North American petroleum industry, international politics, and globalization. He is the author of Developing Alberta’s Oil Sands: From Karl Clark to Kyoto and his next book, Globalization and the World Oil Industry is under contract with Taylor and Francis and examines how the global oil industry reshaped itself during the decade of low oil prices in the 1990s. By focusing on the development of evolutionary changes in technology, business, and government the public and private strategies and decisions produced a dramatic recasting of global energy consumption in the early 2000s.