Book description
Security of Energy supply is a major concern for all modern societies,
intensified by skyrocketing demand in India and China and increasing
international competition over fossil fuel deposits.
Energy Security: An Interdisciplinary Approach
gives A comparative analysis from both consumers' and producers'
perspectives. It uniquely combines economics, geology, international
relations, business, history, public management and political science,
in one comprehensive volume, highlighting the vulnerabilities and need
to move to more sustainable energy sources.
The author provides a number of useful case studies to demonstrate
the theory, including perspectives from consuming regions such as the
United States, the European Union, and China, and from exporting
regions; the Middle East, Africa, Russia and the Caspian Sea.
Key features include:
- coverage on theoretical and empirical frameworks so readers are
able to analyse concepts relevant to new laws and policies in energy security
- up-to-date coverage on 'green energy', outlining research on the
balance between meeting energy needs and avoiding polluting the environment
- an examination of the three most prominent international energy
organizations; International Energy Agency, International Energy
Forum, and Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
- a full Glossary listing all important terms used in the energy field
This study holds important information for policymakers, politicians,
energy specialists, scientists and post-graduate and final year
students of energy and international relations. With its clear written
style, it will also engage other professionals who are interested in
international political economy and the future of global energy.
Professor Gawdat Bahgat, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA
Professor Bahgat has been working on energy issues for the last fifteen
years. He is currently Professor of Political Science and Director of
the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Indiana University of
Pennsylania. In 2006 he served as a consultant to the United States
government on counter-terrorism. Professor Bahgat has published six
books, with a seventh to follow in 2010, and has written more than 140
articles for scholarly jounals. His work has been translated into
several languages and has been used as required reading in a number of
universities in the United States, Europe and Japan. His main areas of
expertise include energy security, proliferation of weapons of mass
destruction, and terrorism.
