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Past Event
Seminar

Energy as a Tool of Foreign Policy

Open to the Public

The presentation will analyze the conditions under which states use energy trade to promote foreign policy goals, focusing on natural gas trade. It will discuss use of energy trade as a foreign policy tool by natural gas supplier, consumer, and transit states. The speaker will discuss the  interaction between natural gas trade and political relations between trading states.

Please join us! Coffee and tea provided. Everyone is welcome, but admittance will be on a first come–first served basis.

Date: Time: - Location: Taubman Building - Nye A, 5th Floor
Pipes for a natural gas pipeline that will connect Russia and Germany, 23 February 2011.

About

Professor Brenda Shaffer will discuss energy trade as a tool of foreign policy. In the last three decades, security concerns about supply disruptions have increased significantly due to the rising global consumption of natural gas. The nature of natural gas markets renders such supplies much more susceptible to political considerations than those of oil and coal. 

The presentation will analyze the conditions under which states use energy trade to promote foreign policy goals, focusing on natural gas trade. It will discuss use of energy trade as a foreign policy tool by natural gas supplier, consumer, and transit states. The speaker will discuss the  interaction between natural gas trade and political relations between trading states.

A supplementary reading may be downloaded here: http://poli.haifa.ac.il/~bshaffer/Shaffer_Natural_Gas_Supply_Stabiity_and_Foreign_Policy.pdf

Please join us! Coffee and tea provided. Everyone is welcome, but admittance will be on a first come–first served basis.