Open AccessThe geopoliticAl context of energy security
Author(s) -
Dušan Proroković
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
međunarodni problemi
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2406-0690
pISSN - 0025-8555
DOI - 10.2298/medjp2001254p
Subject(s) - geopolitics , energy security , context (archaeology) , oil and natural gas , politics , international relations , political science , energy policy , fossil fuel , political economy , economy , sociology , geography , economics , law , engineering , renewable energy , electrical engineering , archaeology , waste management
Geopolitical conceptions also have an ?energy dimension?, just as energysecurity can and must be considered in the context of geopolitics. The twenty-firstcentury remains a century of fossil fuel use. It should be expected that the share of coalin the total energy balance will decline, but also that the share of natural gas use willincrease. Political decisions and international relations as a whole will be correlatedwith the geographical distribution of oil and natural gas sources and routes of thestrategic pipelines. This paper discusses this issue in five chapters. The first isintroductory, explaining the definitions of energy security and geopolitics. The secondchapter is devoted to explaining the importance of energy issues for political relations,and the third presents the geographical distribution of energy sources and reserves.The geopolitics of energy security with some examples from contemporary internationalrelations is described in Chapter Four, while the last part of the paper deals withconcluding considerations.