Energy Security Studies

Catalog description

This course examines the relatively new concept of the importance of the relationship between energy and security in the 21st century. Students conduct analyses of important policy challenges including, but not limited to, economic, geopolitical, and environmental issues. The United States and its key allies (not to mention its competitors—such as China) have huge con - cerns about vulnerability to disruptions in supply, price volatility, and environmental degradation. U.S. national security interests also can po- tentially be in peril if such issues as unequal access to energy sources and instability in key energy-producing regions arise.