Dr. Alexander Mirtchev is a U.S. academic, business executive, author, and philanthropist working in the area of global economic security, energy, and geopolitics.

His most recent work, THE PROLOGUE: The Alternative Energy Megatrend in the Age of Great Power Competition is available in English, Spanish, German, and Russian.

This is not another alternative energy study.

Rather, The Prologue identifies and charts the security-related trajectory of a relatively new global phenomenon: the ascent of alternative energy as a 21st century megatrend.

Why and how have contemporary alternative energy developments evolved into a 21st century global socio-political and techno-economic megatrend? What are the security implications of this megatrend? And what does the megatrend’s evolution reveal about upcoming geopolitical, energy, defense, environmental, and economic security challenges?

This book endeavors to answer these questions by establishing the conceptual framework of a universally securitized world in which mutually interacting threats have expanded the needs and security considerations of today’s globalized and interdependent actors, including states, international organizations, multinational corporations, and political and social movements.

Expert Reviews

Notable praise and reviews for Dr. Mirtchev’s The Prologue: The Alternative Energy Megatrend in the Age of Great Power Competition:

 

“Alexander Mirtchev, a respected member of the Washington foreign policy establishment and vice chairman of the Atlantic Council, in a new book based on a study he conducted for the Wilson Center, names this changed horizon for what it is: a megatrend.“

Llewellyn King

Creator, executive producer, and host of “White House Chronicle”

“This is a comprehensive book on an important development by a leading authority on these issues.”

Professor Matthew Kroenig

Professor of Government and Foreign Service, Georgetown University
Deputy Director of the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, Atlantic Council
Author of Return of the Great Power Rivalry and The Logic of American Nuclear Strategy

“The ongoing revolution in the energy industry is a comparable discontinuity to what occurred when Internet was developed for communications. Not just energy’s business model will change but both geopolitics and the competitiveness of many markets will be redefined. Alexander Mirtchev’s work is a very accurate and absolutely a ‘must-read’ analysis of this transformation, which will impact everyone’s life.”

Prof. Giuseppe Recchi

Chairman, Telecom Italia
Former President, ENI

“Alexander Mirtchev’s book, THE PROLOGUE, introduces a not just original but smart methodology that provides for a breakthrough study. By defining alternative energy development as a trend and analyzing its drivers, the book allows a balanced perspective on issues that have remained beyond the radar screen of economic policy and planning, as well as a new understanding of the upcoming challenges, making it an essential read for both policy makers and business leaders.”

Sir Richard Evans

Former CEO, BAE Systems

“Alexander Mirtchev has provided a thorough examination of a possible significant future, in which the implications of alternative energy source developments come to dominate national, economic, and environmental security and world geopolitics. The thesis in the book is one that needs to be understood by global policy makers, not least in China.”

Prof. Sir David Omand

Former UK Security and Intelligence Coordinator
Author, Securing the State

“I found your book most stimulating. I look forward to seeing the reception.”

The Rt Hon. Lord Robertson, Port Ellen, KT, GCMG, FRSE, PC

Former Secretary General, NATO

“Alexander Mirtchev’s new book is an insightful strategic analysis of the security implications of modern global phenomena that provides for enhanced understanding of the rapidly transforming 21st century geopolitical environment as well as how to deal with its manifest challenges. Policymakers, as well as academia and the private sector, would benefit from taking on board its original thesis and bold ideas.”

Cmdr. Harlan K. Ullman (Ret.), PhD

Distinguished Senior Fellow, National Defense University
Chairman, Killowen Group
Author, Shock and Awe: Achieving Rapid Dominance

“Alexander Mirtchev’s book is a fascinating read.”

Lt. General Guy Swan, CEM, CPP, Ret.

Executive Director, Institute of Land Warfare

“The alternative energy megatrend, as described in Alexander Mirtchev’s book, occupies a large and growing role in the World Bank’s energy portfolio and policy advice. With the Bank’s focus on economic growth and sustainable development, his emphasis on the security dimensions of this issue is both interesting and relevant.”

Rachel Kyte, CMG

Dean, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University
Former Vice President, Sustainable Development, The World Bank

“Alexander Mirtchev’s book is an amazing study that has succeeded in breaking through the complexities of current alternative energy developments and strategies. Not only does it highlight the major policy challenges (energy independence, the environment, economic security, defense, nuclear proliferation), and geopolitical considerations, but it puts forward a pragmatic and smart methodology for addressing the planned, as well as the unintended and unforeseen.”

The Hon. William Sessions

Partner, Holland & Knight

“The development of alternative energies is now sufficiently advanced, at least in terms of promise, to influence the “global security equation,” making the book THE PROLOGUE: The Alternative Energy Megatrend in the Age of Great Power Competition a timely one indeed.”

Prof. Shirley M. Tilghman

President, Princeton University

“Alexander Mirtchev’s work, THE PROLOGUE, is an impressive and comprehensive study of the geo-political, security, economic, and environmental impacts of the alternative energy trend. The accelerating development of alternative energy, as this book shows, is a geo-political, game-changing phenomenon. The new Grand Energy Game will have a greater influence on global affairs in the 21st century than ‘Star Wars’ did in the 20th.”

Lord Truscott of St James’s

Former UK Energy Secretary

 

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