The impact of energy on global security and economy is clear and profound, and this is why in recent years energy security has become a source of concern to most countries. However, energy security means different things to different countries based on their geographic location, their endowment of resources their strategic and economic conditions. In this book, Gal Luft and Anne Korin with the help of twenty leading experts provide an overview of the world's energy system and its vulnerabilities that underlay growing concern over energy security. It hosts a debate about the feasibility of resource conflicts and covers issues such as the threat of terrorism to the global energy system, maritime security, the role of multinationals and non-state actors in energy security, the pathways to energy security through diversification of sources and the development of alternative energy sources. It delves into the various approaches selected producers, consumers and transit states have toward energy security and examines the domestic and foreign policy tradeoffs required to ensure safe and affordable energy supply.
The explains the various pathways to energy security and the tradeoffs among them and demonstrates how all these factors can be integrated in a larger foreign and domestic policy framework. It also explores the future of nuclear power, the complex relations between energy security and environmental concerns and the role for decentralized energy as a way to enhance energy security.
The impact of energy on global security and economy is clear and profound, and this is why in recent years energy security has become a source of concern to most countries. However, energy security means different things to different countries based on their geographic location, their endowment of resources their strategic and economic conditions. In this book, Gal Luft and Anne Korin with the help of twenty leading experts provide an overview of the world's energy system and its vulnerabilities that underlay growing concern over energy security. It hosts a debate about the feasibility of resource conflicts and covers issues such as the threat of terrorism to the global energy system, maritime security, the role of multinationals and non-state actors in energy security, the pathways to energy security through diversification of sources and the development of alternative energy sources. It delves into the various approaches selected producers, consumers and transit states have toward energy security and examines the domestic and foreign policy tradeoffs required to ensure safe and affordable energy supply.
The explains the various pathways to energy security and the tradeoffs among them and demonstrates how all these factors can be integrated in a larger foreign and domestic policy framework. It also explores the future of nuclear power, the complex relations between energy security and environmental concerns and the role for decentralized energy as a way to enhance energy security.
"People serious about America's national security and economic strength must be serious about energy security. From corruption and anti-Americanism fueled by oil revenues, to political blackmail over supplies, to outright conflict, energy considerations are critical to most of today's most pressing foreign policy challenges. Gal Luft and Anne Korin have brought together leading thinkers on energy security in this remarkable collection spanning geopolitics, economy and technology. This timely and comprehensive volume is a one stop shop for anyone interested in one of the most important issues in international relations." -- Richard G. Lugar, United States Senate
Preface
Abbreviations
Chapter 1 Energy Security: In the Eyes of the Beholder
Gal Luft and Anne Korin
Chapter 2 The Epidemic of Energy Terrorism
Ali M. Koknar
Chapter 3 Troubled Waters: Energy Security as Maritime
Security
Donna J. Nincic
Chapter 4 There Will Be Blood: Political Violence, Regional
Warfare, and the Risk of Great-Power Conflict over Contested Energy
Sources
Michael T. Klare
Chapter 5 No Blood for Oil: Why Resource Wars Are
Obsolete
Christopher J. Fettweis
Chapter 6 OPEC: An Anatomy of a Cartel
Amy Myers Jaffe
Chapter 7 Russia: The Flawed Energy Superpower
Ariel Cohen
Chapter 8 Energy Security in the Caspian Basin
Ariel Cohen
Chapter 9 Latin America: America's Forgotten Energy Barn
Johanna Mendelson Forman and Susana Moreira
Chapter 10 United States: A Shackled Superpower
Gal Luft
Chapter 11 The European Union: On Energy, Disunity
Kevin Rosner
Chapter 12 Japan: The Power of Efficiency
Devin Stewart
Chapter 13 Jia You! (Add Oil!): Chinese Energy Security
Strategy
Sabrina Howell
Chapter 14 India: Addicted to Coal
Jeremy Carl
Chapter 15 Squaring the U.S.-Africa-China Energy Triangle:
The Path from Competition to Cooperation
David L. Goldwyn
Chapter 16 Turkey: A Case of a Transit State
Necdet Pamir
Chapter 17 NATO's Grapple with Energy Security
Robert G. Bell
Chapter 18 Liquefied Natural Gas: The Next Prize?
Cindy Hurst
Chapter 19 Technological Solutions for Energy Security
Paul J. Werbos
Chapter 20 A Nuclear Renaissance?
Charles D. Ferguson
Chapter 21 The Decentralized Energy Paradigm
David M. Sweet
Chapter 22 Balancing Energy Security and the Environment
Deron Lovaas
Chapter 23 Realism and Idealism in the Energy Security
Debate
Gal Luft and Anne Korin
Index
GAL LUFT and ANNE KORIN are co-directors of the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security (IAGS) a Washington based think tank focused on energy security. They specialize in strategy, geopolitics, terrorism, energy security and economic warfare. They have published numerous studies and articles on security and energy issues in various newspapers and publications, testified before congressional committees and advised think tanks and news organizations worldwide.
"Editors Luft and Korin (Institute for the Analysis of Global Security) and 20 co-contributors offer a timely and comprehensive look at the role of energy in modern life and the different approaches countries employ to maintain energy security. The overview of the energy system also examines the growing concern over its vulnerabilities. Essentially, the book provides a debate regarding resource conflicts and control by covering issues such as terrorism, maritime security, the role of multinationals in energy security, security through diversification of sources, and development of alternative energy. It also explores the tradeoffs inherent in domestic and foreign policy required to maintain a safe, affordable energy supply." - Reference & Research Book News "The book sets out to give the reader a bird's eye view of the world's energy system and its vulnerabilities, and it delivers. Chapters are well structured and to the point. A sense of common purpose and structure is maintained throughout the book, also when authors argue different points and in different ways...This book gives energy security the attention it deserves: right in the middle of international politics." - OGEL "... offers compelling evidence about the scope of energy security as it is perceived by countries and organizations... This book offers plenty of information--covering piracy/terrorism, Russia, Europe, and the US--will give readers a sense of the control to be exerted by those who control energy resources... Recommended. Lower-level undergraduates and above; general readers." - Choice "This should be part of any college-level military or social issues collection." - Midwest Book Review
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