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The New Geopolitics of Energy
Ambassador Carlos Pascual
发表日期2015-09-15
出版年2015
语种英语
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In this paper, Ambassador Carlos Pascual, non-resident Fellow and former Special Envoy and Coordinator for International Energy Affairs at the US Department of State, provides a new analytic foundation to assess how investment decisions and government policy will influence national security, economic growth, and environmental sustainability.

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Energy and geopolitics have always been closely linked. The twentieth century saw access to energy resources become a major factor in determining the winners of wars, oil producers banding together to create new global alliances, and price swings that spurred or deterred the adventurism of superpowers. Now the vast and fast-paced changes in the energy sector in the twenty-first century are rewriting the relations between the two fields.

To help make sense of the shifting landscape, Ambassador Carlos Pascual, non-resident Fellow and former Special Envoy and Coordinator for International Energy Affairs at the US Department of State, has authored a paper for the Center on Global Energy Policy that provides a new analytic foundation to assess how investment decisions and government policy will influence national security, economic growth, and environmental sustainability. The key findings are below and the full study can be found here (PDF).

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Key Findings

 
  • While America’s new oil and natural gas abundance may hold the allure of allowing it to adopt a more isolated position in global energy markets, this will ultimately not serve its national security interests. Energy markets are becoming more global, and the United States cannot isolate itself from price movements that have a direct impact on the US economy. From a political and environmental standpoint, the United States has an interest in seeing investment in sustainable energy solutions. A policy of isolationism would also forgo the drivers—open markets and entrepreneurship—that sparked the American energy revolution to begin with.
  • The United States, like other major energy producers in the past, has used its newly tapped energy resources to support its international objectives. However, interfering with markets can come with unintended consequences that can ultimately undermine the interests of the United States and its international partners. The “Rules of Six” outlined within this paper set up a framework for policymakers to evaluate interventions in a way that helps ensure they are successful.
  • US policymakers must have a better understanding of how changes in global energy markets impact the nation’s interests, including the current shifts in global energy demand, the diversification of oil supply sources and the increased competition in global gas markets, the incentives for power investment across nations and the implications for climate change, and the need to increase energy access globally and the repercussions for failing to meet that demand.
  • If nations see stopping climate change as a key foreign policy and national security concern, then the financial and technical factors driving these investment trends must become a priority at the intersection of energy markets and geopolitical interests. To succeed, the United States and other nations must integrate finance experts, energy developers, engineers, climate scientists, and foreign policy specialists into the debate. At the same time, tackling the challenge of universal access to energy will require leaning heavily on business models in addition to technical solutions.
 
 
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主题Geopolitics
URLhttps://www.energypolicy.columbia.edu/research/report/new-geopolitics-energy
来源智库Center on Global Energy Policy (United States)
资源类型智库出版物
条目标识符http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/394646
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GB/T 7714		 Ambassador Carlos Pascual. The New Geopolitics of Energy. 2015.
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