Energy Security Challenges for the 21st Century

A Reference Handbook

Gal Luft, Anne Korin, Gal Luft, Anne Korin

• Publisher: Praeger
• Year: 2009
• Print ISBN: 9780275999971
• eBook ISBN: 9780275999988
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: National Security
• Index: Politics & International Relations

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• Abbreviations
• Chapter 1 Energy Security: In the Eyes of the Beholder
• Chapter 2 The Epidemic of Energy Terrorism
• Chapter 3 Troubled Waters: Energy Security as Maritime Security
• Chapter 4 There Will Be Blood: Political Violence, Regional Warfare, and the Risk of Great-Power Conflict over Contested Energy Sources
• Chapter 5 No Blood for Oil: Why Resource Wars Are Obsolete
• Chapter 6 OPEC: An Anatomy of a Cartel
• Chapter 7 Russia: The Flawed Energy Superpower
• Chapter 8 Energy Security in the Caspian Basin
• Chapter 9 Latin America: America’s Forgotten Energy Barn
• Chapter 10 United States: A Shackled Superpower
• Chapter 11 The European Union: On Energy, Disunity
• Chapter 12 Japan: The Power of Efficiency
• Chapter 13 Jia You! (Add Oil!): Chinese Energy Security Strategy
• Chapter 14 India: Addicted to Coal
• Chapter 15 Squaring the U.S.-Africa-China Energy Triangle: The Path from Competition to Cooperation
• Chapter 16 Turkey: A Case of a Transit State
• Chapter 17 NATO’s Grapple with Energy Security
• Chapter 18 Liquefied Natural Gas: The Next Prize?
• Chapter 19 Technological Solutions for Energy Security
• Chapter 20 A Nuclear Renaissance?
• Chapter 21 The Decentralized Energy Paradigm
• Chapter 22 Balancing Energy Security and the Environment
• Chapter 23 Realism and Idealism in the Energy Security Debate
• Index
• About the Contributors