The Militarization of Energy Security
Abstract
The purpose of this talk is twofold: First, I will briefly cover some of the highlights of a paper coauthored with my colleague at the Naval Postgraduate School, Daniel Moran, titled 'The Militarization of Energy Security.' This paper was published in the January 2008 issue of our ejournal 'Strategic Insights' and is the opening chapter in an edited volume that will be published by Routledge in the summer of 2008 titled: 'Energy Security and Global Politics: The Militarization of Resource Management.' The volume includes a series of papers by a variety of authors, including the Baker Institute's own Ron Soligo and Amy Jaffe, that were compiled by us at the Naval Postgraduate School as part of a project for the Long-Range Analysis Unit at the National Intelligence Council, which was preparing a national intelligence estimate on energy and national security. Second, I'd like offer up some thoughts of how this framework might be applied to today's circumstance in international energy markets and to consider the prospect that deliberate actor calculations or miscalculations over the functioning or perceived non-functioning of those energy markets might lead to armed conflict between developed states.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jul 01, 2008
- Accession Number
- ADA484679
Entities
People
- James Russell III
Organizations
- Naval Postgraduate School