ENERGY & INTERNATIONAL SECURITY

Drs. Adam N. Stulberg & Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall INTA 3042

Habersham 203 Fall 2020
(404) 385-0090 Weds. 5:00-8:00pm
adam.stulberg@inta.gatech.edu Hybrid/Habersham G-17
lsr@gatech.edu
Virtual Office Hours: Mon. 4-6pm & by appointment

DESCRIPTION & OBJECTIVES

This course examines issues at the intersection of national energy security/sustainability

and international conflict/cooperation. Is oil or natural gas import dependence a foreign
policy liability or cause for war? In energy a domain ripe for gray zone or hybrid warfare?
Or, do globalization and the interdependence of energy markets favor international
cooperation and peace? More specifically, can supplier states such as Saudi Arabia and
Russia use hydrocarbon exports as energy weapons? Or, will low oil prices, as well as the
promise of U.S. natural gas exports lock in a strategic pivot away from the Persian Gulf
and reinvigorate America’s global leverage, if not “dominance,” especially amid growing
local demand across the Middle East and East Asia? Will this give grist to future U.S.
energy sanctions on Russia, Iran, Venezuela and other strategic rivals, or stoke instability
across the Middle East and Eurasia? Are the U.S. and China doomed to compete for access
to global energy supply? Will there be a nuclear energy renaissance, and if so, will it
increase the likelihood of weapons proliferation and/or regional conflict? Similarly, do
innovations that ease distribution of renewable energy, promote local sustainability, and
fuse energy with information systems reduce risks of resource wars or lower barriers to
cross-border conflict? Can energy innovation provide a competitive advantage for U.S.
grand strategy?

Students are introduced to major theoretical and policy analytical lenses used to examine
critical geopolitical and geoeconomic issues associated with national pursuits of energy
security and sustainability. The above questions and others will be probed by dissecting
the complex interaction between resource endowments, technologies/innovation,
economics, politics, power, and strategy in the oil, natural gas, nuclear, and alternative
energy sectors; and by analyzing the implications for broader themes and concepts of
security and statecraft in international relations. Accordingly, the course is structured
around historical and comparative analysis of core issues in each sector that cut across
different states and regions related to resource scarcity, market dynamics, trade
vulnerability, corporate behavior, policymaking, national welfare and threat perceptions,
and strategic interaction.

Learning Outcomes

Students will demonstrate proficiency at critiquing alternative explanations for

international energy competition/conflict/war and assessing systematically the respective

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policies, institutions, and technologies adopted to bolster energy security and sustainability
by different actors across the international system. In studying energy systems across
different sectors, they also will acquire knowledge about the relationship between science,
technology, and international affairs, more broadly. In addition, students will enhance their
professional development by learning to communicate effectively in applying critical
analysis for generating concrete policy recommendations on international security issues
at the nexus of energy resources, technologies/infrastructure, trading, governance, and
sustainable social systems at the national, and global levels.

COURSE MODALITY & FORMAT

This semester the course will be offered in hybrid "touch point" mode, with a few
lectures/discussions delivered in-class (as possible) and the others delivered
remotely/synchronously & asynchronously. For occasional in-class sessions, we will
convene in small groups (w/masks & observing social distancing) during the scheduled
period, with rotating participation (as possible) and remote access for others. That said, all
lectures and materials will be available remotely throughout the semester and students will
be required to participate in-class or online during all synchronous lectures and activities
(exceptions for accommodations and upon instructor approval). Updated announcements
will be posted in CANVAS Announcements throughout the semester.

The dedicated course period will consist of synchronous lectures (recorded), discussion
and in-class interactive activities. There will be occasional guest speakers (virtual,
recorded) during these sessions. These in-class activities will be augmented by weekly
reading, assignments, documentaries and other materials in between class sessions. As per
GT guidelines, face masks will be required for everyone, all the time, and irrespective of
social distancing for all course-related physical interaction. In addition, there will be
explicit entry-exit and seating protocols for any classroom attendance. For more on GT
mask protocol, guidelines, and enforcement, see https://hr.gatech.edu/face-coverings.
Health accommodations will be respected upon notification.

COURSE REQUIREMENTS & GRADING

Students are expected to complete the required weekly reading and other assignments
before each class, and to contribute actively to all in-class discussions/activities. Most
classes will begin with a lecture on the designated topic, and conclude with a structured
discussion/activity of a major theoretical puzzle and attendant policy debate. Accordingly,
students will be required to post answers to in-class quizzes and assignments by midnight
following the conclusion of the respective class, as well as to engage in limited chats and
other informal discussion threads in between classes.

Students will take an in-class exam on September 16th. This will consist of short answer
identifications of key terms and concepts drawn from the lectures, reading, and other
material covered in Module 1.

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During the course of Module 2, each student will develop a short policy memo in which
they make recommendations for bilateral U.S. engagement with a country of their choosing
to advance shared climate and clean energy transition goals. Each student will present
his/her analysis and recommendations during the third class in the module (October 7th).

At the end of Module 3, each student will be responsible for drafting one short (3-4 pages,
double-spaced) critical review of official and/or expert commentary on the international
security implications of the changing energy landscape or related climate developments.
This can include presentations on campus (e.g. public talks, in-class guest lectures),
government statements, expert blogs or other on-line commentary, articles in policy
journals/outlets, etc. The review should consist at least of a brief summary of the main
argument of the targeted commentary, and an analytical and empirical critique. Critical
reviews can be turned in at the student’s discretion on or before November 4th.

Each student will participate in a dynamic course policy simulation that will take place
during the November 11th and 18th class periods (Module 4). The specific scenario and
format of the simulation will be discussed in class. As part of the preparation, each student
will be required to write a short background paper (3-4 pages, double-spaced) and
contribute to drafting a group policy position paper (7 pages, double-spaced). For the first
background paper each student will summarize the policy issues at stake from the
respective national perspective. This should be augmented by identifying the specific
issues of concern to the institutional or corporate actor played by the student on the national
team. The second paper will be collectively written by respective
national/transnational/corporate teams, laying out the initial policy positions and objectives
for the designated scenario. Both papers will be due at the onset of the simulation on
November 11th. Each student will participate actively in all group problem-solving and
deliberative exercises during the two-day policy simulation.

Finally, students are required to write a policy memo (8-10 pages) on a topic at the
intersection of energy and national security relevant to a theme covered during the
course. Examples can include:

(1) How should the United States respond to continuing Russian energy pressure on
Central and Eastern European countries?
(2) How should the United States prepare for and respond to a potential blockage of
sea lanes in the Straits of Malacca?
(3) What should the United States do about the challenges affecting the nuclear
power industry and how can this advance nonproliferation goals?
(4) What are the greatest challenges at the intersection of emerging energy
technologies and national security and how can the United States meet them?
(5) Another related topic of choice with approval from instructors.

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The memo will be addressed to the U.S. National Security Advisor and will: (1) succinctly
frame the issue for consideration, putting it into a broader context and offering clarity about
why it is important that it be addressed promptly; (2) set forth a range of policy options
(optimally between three and five) for addressing the issue and discuss the pros and cons
of each options; (3) make a recommendation for Presidential action among those options.
The idea is not to do extensive additional research but to use the readings and class
discussions as a foundation for this endeavor. A summary of the project must be submitted
to Professors Stulberg and Sherwood-Randall no later than November 18th. The final paper
must be submitted by December 7th at 6 pm. No late papers will be accepted.

Grading

Class Engagement/Weekly Quizzes/Threads 15%

Module 1 In-class Exam 10%
Module 2 Policy Memo 15%
Module 3 Critical Essay 15%
Simulation 25%
Indiv paper 5%
Group paper 10%
Participation 10%
Final Paper 20%

READING
(Available for Purchase at GT Barnes & Noble Bookstore)

Meghan O’Sullivan, Windfall: How the New Energy Abundance Upends Global Politics
and Strengthens America’s Power (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2017);
Per Hogselius, Energy and Geopolitics (New York: Routledge, 2019);
Charles Ferguson, Nuclear Energy: What Everyone Needs to Know (New York: Oxford
University Press, 2011); and

*Charles L. Glaser and Rosemary A. Kelanic, eds., Crude Strategy: Rethinking the U.S.
Military Commitment to Defense Persian Gulf Oil (Washington, DC: Georgetown
University Press, 2016);
*Steve A. Yetiv, Myths of the Oil Boom: American National Security in a Global Energy
Market (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015);
*Jan Kalicki and David L. Goldwyn, Energy and Security: Strategies for a World in
Transition, 2nd Edition (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013).
* Peter Fox-Penner, Power After Carbon: Building a Clean, Resilient Grid (Harvard
University Press, 2020):

*Recommended

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USEFUL LINKS

Baker Institute, Energy Forum Research, http://www.rice.edu/energy/research/

Atlantic Council (Eurasian Energy Futures Initiative),
http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/programs/dinu-patriciu-eurasia-center/eurasian-
energy-futures
BP Energy Outlook, https://www.bp.com/en/global/corporate/energy-economics/energy-
outlook.html
CIA “The World Fact Book”, https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world
factbook/index.html
Council on Foreign Relations, (Energy and Environment; Geopolitics of Energy)
http://www.cfr.org/publication/20511/energyenvironment.html?breadcrumb=%2F
issue%2F17%2Fenergyenvironment
https://www.cfr.org/geopolitics-energy
Energy Information Agency – Country Analysis Briefs. http://www.eia.doe.gov/cabs/
ExxonMobil, Outlook for Energy, https://corporate.exxonmobil.com/Energy-and-
environment/Looking-forward/Outlook-for-Energy
Cambridge Energy Resource Associates,
http://www.cera.com/aspx/cda/public1/home/home.aspx
Energy Policy Research Foundation, Inc., http://eprinc.org/?page_id=58
MIT Energy Initiative, http://energy.mit.edu/
Harvard University, Belfer Center, Energy Technology Innovation Policy
http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/project/10/energy_technology_innovation_poli
cy.html
Harvard University, Belfer Center, The Geopolitics of Energy Project
http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/project/68/geopolitics_of_energy_project.html
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, https://www.ipcc.ch/about/
International Energy Agency: http://www.iea.org/
Center for New American Security (Energy, Economics, & Security),
https://www.cnas.org/research/energy-economics-and-security
Center for Strategic and International Studies (Energy & Geopolitics),
https://www.csis.org/topics/energy-sustainability/energy-geopolitics
Oil Drum Blog: http://www.theoildrum.com/
Columbia University/SIPA Center on Global Energy Policy,
http://energypolicy.columbia.edu/
Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, http://www.oxfordenergy.org/research.shtml
Nuclear Threat Initiative, https://www.nti.org/.
Stanford University, Precourt Center for Energy Research, http://pie.stanford.edu/
White House Blog: Energy and the Environment:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/issues/Energy-%2526-Environment
World Bank Energy:
http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/TOPICS/EXTENERGY2/0,,me
nuPK:4114636~pagePK:149018~piPK:149093~theSitePK:4114200,00.html
LexisNexis accesses hundreds of energy sources: Platts, Oil and Gas Journal, Petroleum
Economist, among many others.

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DECORUM & INTEGRITY

Learning together requires that everyone must feel welcome and able to trust others in the
class. A central aim of the course is to encourage students to think and be critical.
Accordingly, all students are expected to exchange freely ideas while respecting the
opinions of each other. Similarly, each student must recognize that academic dishonesty
(such as cheating on a test/quiz or plagiarism on a paper) completely undermines the
mission of this course, is surprisingly easy to detect, and is taken very seriously by the
Institute. Do not be tempted to take a short cut to complete an assignment— consult the
GT honor code/Honor Advisory Council http://www.policylibrary.gatech.edu/student-
affairs/academic-honor-code -- if there are any questions.

All synchronous lectures and discussions will be recorded, unless otherwise noted by the
professors. Students must turn off cell phones, pagers, and other electronic devices that
could be distracting during all synchronous activities.

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 COURSE SCHEDULE

MODULE 1: ENERGY FUNDAMENTALS & IR SECURITY

Aug. 19: Introduction: Energy Systems, National Security & Geopolitics

Reading:
Global Energy Institute, International Index of Energy Security Risk
(peruse)
https://www.globalenergyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/IESRI-
Report_2020_4_20_20.pdf
IEA, “World Energy Outlook, 2019,” Executive Summary
https://iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/1f6bf453-3317-4799-
ae7b-9cc6429c81d8/English-WEO-2019-ES.pdf
EIA, International Energy Outlook 2019,”
https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/ieo/pdf/ieo2019.pdf
BP Energy Future vs. Exxon Outlook for Energy 2019 (peruse)/CANVAS
Module 1

Aug 26: Energy Basics (Oil, Natural Gas, and the Nuclear Fuel Cycle)

Reading:
EIA, “Energy Explained,” (“What is Energy” thru “Secondary
Resources”), https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/
Michelle Melton, Annie Hudson, and Sarah Ladislaw, “Energy 101:
Introduction to Oil,” https://csis-website-
prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-
public/legacy_files/files/publication/150910_oil.pdf
“Energy 101: Introduction to Natural Gas,”
https://csis-website-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-
public/legacy_files/files/publication/Natural_Gas_101.pdf
“Alternative Energy: Historical Time-Line” (peruse)
http://alternativeenergy.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=
002475
Hogselius, Chps. 1-2;
Ferguson, Chps, 1-5, 7, 8;

Recommended:
*The World Bank Group, “The Petroleum Sector Value Chain,”
(2009)/CANVAS Module 1

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Sept. 2: Hydrocarbon Century & Geopolitics: From “King Coal” to the Rise of
“Big Oil” & OPEC

Reading:
Price-Smith, Chp. 1/CANVAS;
James D. Hamilton, “Historical Oil Shocks,” unpublished draft (February
2011), http://econweb.ucsd.edu/~jhamilton/oil_history.pdf
Kalicki & Goldwyn, Chp. 3/CANVAS.
Brian C. Black, “Exxon’s Rex Tillerson & the Rise of Big Oil in
American Politics,” The Conversation (January 31, 2017).
http://theconversation.com/exxons-rex-tillerson-and-the-rise-of-
big-oil-in-american-politics-70260
O’Sullivan, Chp. 1
“The Prize,” Parts 5&6/CANVAS Module 1

Recommended:
*Watch “The Prize” Parts 1, 2, 4 & 7.
*Roger Stern, “Oil Scarcity Ideology in US Foreign Policy, 1908-97,”
Security Studies 25:2 (2016), pp. 214-257. (Library: e-journals).

Sept. 9: Energy Markets, Prices, Peaks, and Curses

Reading:
Hogselius, Chp. 4
Klare, Chp. 1 (CANVAS).
“President Donald J. Trump is Unleashing American Energy
Dominance,” (May 14, 2019)
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/president-
donald-j-trump-unleashing-american-energy-dominance/
“President Donald J. Trump Has Unleashed American Producers and
Restored our Energy Dominance,” (July 29, 2020)
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/president-
donald-j-trump-unleashed-american-producers-restored-energy-
dominance/
O’Sullivan, Chp. 2
Campbell-Lynch Debate, Oil & Gas Journal, 14 July 2003
(CANVAS).
Michael Ross, “Does Oil Hinder Democracy,” World Politics 53 (April
2001), pp. 325-61) (CANVAS)
EIA, “What Drives Crude Oil Prices: Overview,” (From spot prices-
Demand OECD), https://www.eia.gov/finance/markets/crudeoil/
EIA, “What Drives Petroleum Product Prices: Overview,” (From price
balance), https://www.eia.gov/finance/markets/products/

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 Recommended Reading:
*Robert McNally, “Crude Volatility,” Chps. 9 & 10/CANVAS
*Andre Mansson, “A Resource Curse for Renewables?: Conflict and
Cooperation in the Renewable Energy Sector,” Energy Research &
Social Science (2015) (CANVAS).
*Benjamin K. Sovacool and Marilyn Brown, “Competing Dimensions on
Energy Security: An International Perspective,” GT/IAC Public
Policy Working Paper #45 (13 January 2009)/CANVAS
*Jason Bordoff, “The American Energy Superpower: Why Dominance is
About More than Just Production,” Foreign Affairs (July 6,
2017)/CANVAS.

Sept 16: Energy & IR Security Nexus

Guest Speaker: Peter Harrell, Adjunct Senior Fellow, Center for a New
American Security

Reading:
Hogselius, Chp. 3 (peruse), 5-7.
O’Sullivan, Chps. 5-6
David Victor and Rebuttals, “What Resource Wars?”, The National
Interest, Nov/Dec 2007 and Jan/Feb, 2008/CANVAS;
Eugene Gholz, “The Strait Dope: Why Iran Can’t Cut off Your Oil,”
Foreign Policy (Sept/Oct. 2009)
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/08/12/the_strait_dope
Bud Coote, Impact of Sanctions on Russia’s Energy Sector,” Atlantic
Council/Global Energy Center (March 2018),
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/images/publications/Impact_of_Sa
nctions_on_Russia_s_Energy_Sector_web.pdf
Jeff D. Colgan, “Fueling the Fire: Pathways from Oil to War,”
International Security 38:2 (Fall 2013), pp. 147-189/CANVAS
Peter Toft, Arash Duero, Arunas Bieliauskas, “Terrorist Targeting and
Energy Security,” Energy Policy 38 (2010), pp. 4411-
4421/CANVAS.
Michael Ross, “Blood Barrels”, Foreign Affairs, May/June
2008/CANVAS.

Recommended Reading:
*Glaser & Kelanic, Chps. 3 & 5;
*Kenneth A. Schultz, “Mapping Interstate Territorial Conflict: A
New Data Set and Applications,” Journal of Conflict Resolution
(2015)/CANVAS

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 *Llewelyn Hughes and Austin Long, “Is There an Oil Weapon?: Security
Implications of Changes in the Structure of the Oil Market,”
International Security 39:3 (Winter 2014/15), pp. 152-
189/CANVAS.
*Steve A. Yetiv, The Petroleum Triangle: Oil, Globalization, and Terror
(Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2011), Chp. 6/CANVAS.
*ICSR Report, “Caliphate in Decline: An Estimate of Islamic State’s
Financial Fortunes,” ICSR Kings College (2017),
http://icsr.info/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/ICSR-Report-
Caliphate-in-Decline-An-Estimate-of-Islamic-States-Financial-
Fortunes.pdf. (peruse)
*Ferguson, Chp. 6

MODULE 2: CLIMATE CHANGE AT THE NEXUS OF U.S. ENERGY AND

NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY (LSR)

Sept. 23: Energy, Climate & National Security Policymaking

Reading:
Barack Obama, “Presidential Policy Directive 1,”
The White House February 13, 2009
https://fas.org/irp/offdocs/ppd/ppd-1.pdf
“The National Laboratories: US Powerhouses of Science and
Technology,” https://nationallabs.org
Sara R (Rose) Rinfret, Denise L. Scheberle, and Michelle C. Pautz, Public
Policy: A Concise Introduction (Washington, DC: Congressional
Quarterly Press, 2018), Chp. 10/CANVAS.

Sept. 30: Climate Change and its Emergence as a National Security Issue

Guest Speaker: Dr. Kim Cobb, Georgia Power Chair and ADVANCE
Professor, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, GT

Reading:

Leon Fuerth, “National Security, Energy, Climate Change: New

Paradigm; New Strategy; New Governance,” in Jan H. Kalicki and David
L. Goldwyn (eds.), Energy and Security: Strategies for a World in
Transition (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013), Chapter 22 pp. 499-
512/CANVAS.

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 Fox-Penner, Chp. 5 (The Fragmented Future)
Department of Defense 2014 Climate Change Adaptation Roadmap
https://www.acq.osd.mil/eie/downloads/CCARprint_wForward_e.pdf

Report on Effects of a Changing Climate to the Department of Defense

2019 https://media.defense.gov/2019/Jan/29/2002084200/-1/-
1/1/CLIMATE-CHANGE-REPORT-2019.PDF

Special Report: Global Warming of 1.5 by the Intergovernmental Panel on

Climate Change: https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/download/

Recommended Reading:
*O’Sullivan, Chps. 4 & 11
*Glaser & Kelanic, Chp. 1/CANVAS).

Oct. 7: Simulation: National Security Council Meeting on Bilateral Climate

Change Initiatives

Sarah Ladislaw and Nikos Tsafos, Race to the Top (Washington, DC, CSIS,
July 2020),
https://csis-website-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-
public/publication/200706_SRF_RacetotheTop_WEB_v2%20FINAL.pdf

MODULE 3: ENERGY & STRATEGIC INTERACTION

Oct. 14: Eurasian & Asian Energy Pivots

Reading:
O’Sullivan, Chps. 8-10.
German Marshall Fund “Illicit Influence: The Energy Weapon,” Report
from the Alliance for Securing Democracy & C4ADS,
https://d2llho1jqyw8vm.cloudfront.net/wp-
content/uploads/2019/04/Illicit-Influence-Pt-2_Preview-PDF.pdf
Tatiana Mitrova and Vitaly Yermakov, Russia’s Energy Strategy-2035:
Struggling to Remain Relevant (Paris: IFRI, December
2019)/CANVAS
Maria Snegovaya, “What Factors Contribute to the Aggressive Foreign
Policy of Russian Leaders,” Problems of Post-Communism 67:1
(2020)/CANVAS

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 Steve Levine, “The End of the Great Game,” The New Republic, October
5, 2010 https://newrepublic.com/article/78168/obama-central-asia-
great-game
Richard Morningstar et al., “Issue Brief: European Energy Security and
Transatlantic Cooperation: A Current Assessment,” The Atlantic
Council Global Energy Center, June 2019
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/images/publications/European_En
ergy_Security_and_Transatlantic_Cooperation.pdf
Janet Xuanli Liao, “China’s Energy Diplomacy Towards Central Asia and
the Implications on Its ‘Belt and Road Initiative’,” The Pacific
Review (2020)/CANVAS
Jeffrey Ball, “Grow Green China Inc.: How China’s Epic Push for Cleaner
Energy Creates Economic Opportunity for the West,” Brookings
Paper 8, May 2019/CANVAS
European Commission, European Energy Security Strategy,
Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament
and the Council, May 28, 2014, https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-
content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:52014DC0330&from=EN

Recommended Reading:
*Morena Skalamera, “Explaining the 2014 Sino-Russian Gas
Breakthrough: The Primacy of Domestic Politics,” Europe Asia
Studies 70:1 (2018), pp. 90-107/CANVAS
*Jonna Nyman, “Red Storm Ahead: Securitization of Energy in US-China
Relations,” Millenium 43:1 (2014), pp. 43-65/CANVAS
* Samir Tata, “Deconstructing China’s Energy Security Strategy,” The
Diplomat.com (January 14, 2017),
https://thediplomat.com/2017/01/deconstructing-chinas-energy-
security-strategy/
*Chia-yi Lee, “China’s Energy Diplomacy: Does Chinese Foreign Policy
Favor Oil-Producing Countries?” Foreign Policy Analysis 14:4
(October 2019)/CANVAS

Oct. 21: Changing Nuclear Landscape: Implications for Energy &

International Security

Guest Speaker: Daniel Poneman, Senior Fellow with the Belfer Center
(Harvard Univ) and President and Chief Executive Officer of Centrus
Energy Corp. He previously served as Acting Secretary of Energy and
as Deputy Secretary of Energy.

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Reading:
Ferguson, Chps. 3-5;
Laura S. H. Holgate and Sagatom Saha, “America Must Lead on Nuclear
Energy to Maintain National Security,” The Washington Quarterly
41:2 (2018)/CANVAS
“The U.S. Nuclear Energy Enterprise: A Key National Security Enabler,”
A Special Report by the Energy Futures Initiative (August 2017),
http://www.energyfuels.com/wp-
content/uploads/2018/01/2018.01.16-Exhibits-to-
Petition_Part2.pdf
Nicola de Blasio and Richard Nephew, The Geopolitics of Nuclear Power
and Technology (Center on Global energy Policy, March 2017),
http://energypolicy.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/The%20Geopol
itics%20of%20Nuclear%20Power%20and%20Technology%20033
017.pdf
Pierre Goldschmidt, “Multilateral Nuclear Fuel Supply Guarantees &
Spent Fuel Management: What are the Priorities?” Daedalus
(Winter 2010), pp. 7-19. (library: e-journals);
Jane Nakano, The Changing Geopolitics of Nuclear Energy: A Look at the
United States, Russia, and China (Washington, DC, CSIS 2020),
https://csis-website-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-
public/publication/200416_Nakano_NuclearEnergy_UPDATED%
20FINAL.pdf?heOTjmYgA_5HxCUbVIZ2PGedzzQNg24v

Recommended Reading:
*Christoph Bluth, Matthew Kroenig, Rensslelear Lee, William C. Sailor,
and Matthew Fuhrmann, “Civilian Nuclear Cooperation and the
Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons,” International Security 35:1
(Summer 2010) (library: e-journals).
*Nicholas Miller, Why Nuclear Energy Programs Rarely Lead to
Proliferation,” International Security 42:2 (Fall 2017) (library: e-
journals).
*Adam N. Stulberg, “Internationalization of the Fuel Cycle and the Nuclear
Energy Renaissance: Confronting the Credible Commitment
Problem,” in Adam N. Stulberg and Matthew Fuhrmann, eds., The
Nuclear Renaissance and International Security (Stanford: Stanford
University Press, 2013) (CANVAS).
*Eliza Gheorghe, “Proliferation and the Logic of the Nuclear Market,”
International Security 43:4 (Spring 2019)/CANVAS
*“Final Report,” Investigation Committee on the Accident at the
Fukushima Nuclear Power Station, Executive Summary/CANVAS,
peruse.

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Oct. 28 Geopolitics & the Age of Natural Gas & Energy Networks

Reading:
O’Sullivan, Chps. 3, Section 2; Conclusion
Grigas, Chps. 2.

Adam N. Stulberg, “Eurasia’s Pipeline Tangle,” Russia in Global Affairs

(24 September 2011)
http://eng.globalaffairs.ru/person/p_2445
Alan Riley, “Nord Stream 2: A Pipeline Dividing Europe?” Center for
European Policy Analysis (June 29, 2019),
https://www.cepa.org/a-pipeline-dividing-europe
Jonathan Elkind and Tim Boersma, Talking Past Each Other: Transatlantic
Perspectives on European Gas Security, Columbia SIPA: Center
on Global Energy Policy, May 2018 (CANVAS)

Recommended Reading:
*Pierre Noel, “Nord Stream II and Europe’s Strategic Autonomy,” Survival
61:6 (December 2019-January 2020)/CANVAS
*Kalicki & Goldwyn, Chp. 8.
*Adam N. Stulberg, “Natural Gas and the Russia-Ukraine Crisis: Strategic
Restraint and the Emerging Europe-Eurasia Gas Network,” Energy
Research & Social Science 24 (February 2017), pp. 71-85.
(CANVAS).
*Tatiana Mitrova, The Geopolitics of Russian Natural Gas (February 24,
2014),
http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/files/MO-CES-pub-
GeoGasGCC-102513.pdf.
*Jessica Jewell, Marta Vetier, Daniel Garcia-Cabrera, “The International
Technological Nuclear Cooperation Landscape: A New Dataset and
Network Analysis,” Energy Policy 128 (May 2019)/CANVAS

Nov. 4: Contemporary Energy Technology & Energy Security Challenges

Guest Speaker: Professor Matthew Realff, School of Chemical and

Biomolecular Engineering.

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 Reading:
International Renewable Energy Agency/Global Commission on the
Geopolitics of Energy Transformation, A New World: The
Geopolitics of the Energy Transformation (2019),
http://geopoliticsofrenewables.org/assets/geopolitics/Reports/wp-
content/uploads/2019/01/Global_commission_renewable_energy_
2019.pdf
David Victor and Kassia Yanosek, “The Next Energy Revolution: Promise
and Peril of High Technology Innovation,” Foreign Affairs,
July/August 2017 (library: e-journals)
Center for Naval Analyses, “Advanced Energy and National Security,”
2017 https://www.cna.org/CNA_files/PDF/IRM-2017-U-
015512.pdf
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Markit, February: https://ihsmarkit.com/Info/0219/clean-energy-
innovation.html

Recommended Reading:
*Wolfram Lacher and Dennis Kumetat, “The Security of Energy
Infrastructure and Supply in North Africa: Hydrocarbons and
Renewable Energies in Comparative Perspective,” Energy Policy 39
(2011), pp. 4466-4478/CANVAS
*Meghan O’Sullivan, Indra Overland, and David Sandalow, “The
Geopolitics of Renewable Energy,” Working Paper CGEP/Belfer-
NUPI (June 2017),
https://energypolicy.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/CGEPTheGeo
politicsOfRenewables.pdf
*Varun Sivaram, Taming the Sun: Innovations to Harness Solar Energy
and Save the Planet. MIT University Press, 2018.
MODULE 4: IN-CLASS SIMULATION

Nov. 11: In-Class Simulation 1 (TBA)

Nov. 18: In-Class Simulation 2 (TBA)

Nov. 25 NO CLASS: THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY

Dec. 7: FINAL POLICY MEMOS DUE 6:00PM

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