Energy Security Challenges for the 21st Century (eBook, PDF)

A Reference Handbook
Redaktion: Luft, Gal; Korin, Anne

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 388
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. August 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780275999988
• Artikelnr.: 37815717

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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