Energy Security

Catalog description

This course will examine the geopolitics of energy, emphasizing the security implications of global energy markets and resource competition. The course explores the ways that states shape their grand strategies to meet their energy needs, and the impact of these strategies on regional and global politics. The course will also look into the geopolitical, environment and domestic factors that drive energy policy decisions. Students will examine problems in energy security using both long-term and short-term perspectives. Students will learn how states balance long-term investments to secure energy supply against the short-term need to ensure a supply network's capacity to withstand short-term interruptions and shocks.