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The International Security Initiative at the Center on Global Energy Policy explores issues at the intersection of energy markets, policy and geopolitics.
Energy will play an increasingly important role in international security and vice versa. The Center on Global Energy Policy launched the International Security Initiative to conduct research and hold events in some of the most important energy-related policy issues of our time, including energy security, terrorism, cybersecurity, sanctions, and the security implications of energy poverty. The Initiative explores issues at the intersection of energy markets, policy and geopolitics to inform policy debates, foster understanding of global security and energy dynamics, and produce independent and data-driven research.
Led by Richard Nephew, CGEP senior research scholar and former Deputy Coordinator for Sanctions Policy at the U.S. Department of State and John MacWilliams, CGEP fellow and former Associate Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy, and Jonathan Elkind, CGEP senior research scholar and former Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy, the Initiative produces in-depth research papers, policy briefs and host roundtable discussions and off-the-record conversations with senior energy policy officials and industry leaders. CGEP non-resident fellows Michael P. Dempsey, former acting Director of National Intelligence and career intelligence officer, William Rich, former U.S. Financial Attaché to the United Arab Emirates, and Oman, and Ariane Tabatabai, associate political scientist at the RAND Corporation, also support the work of the initiative.
How Biden's Climate Plans Will Shake Up Global Energy Markets
Jason Bordoff
In his latest column in Foreign Policy, Jason Bordoff examines what Biden's making climate change a top national security priority will mean for global energy markets and how the use of foreign policy tools—in areas as diverse as international trade, development assistance, multilateral finance, nonproliferation, and diplomacy—can give a boost to clean energy and U.S. firms and technologies.
Shifts in Global Sanctions Policy, and What They Mean for the Future
Richard Nephew
Richard Nephew explores the last four years of new sanctions, policies, and approaches around the world.
The Implications of an Iran Sanctions Snapback
Richard Nephew examines the Trump administration's decision to pursue the reimposition, or snapback, of UN Security Council sanctions against Iran.
"The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations"
Author, The New Map
Host Jason Bordoff is joined by Dr. Dan Yergin, Author of "The New Map."
Understanding the Coronavirus: Risks, Impacts and Response to the COVID-19 Disease
Dr. Irwin Redlener
Director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at the Earth Institute
As scientists and public health officials race to control the spread of the deadly Coronavirus disease -- COVID-19, which first sickened people in China in December 2019 -- individuals around the world are...
What's Going on with Iran?
Richard Nephew and Antoine Halff
Center on Global Energy Policy
On January 2, the United States carried out an attack in Baghdad against a convoy of vehicles that killed Qasem Soleimani, an Iranian general and head of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Qods Force. Iran retaliated for the...
2019 Columbia Global Energy Summit
Future of Economic Statecraft: Fireside Chat with Jack Lew
Triple Axis: Iran's Relations with Russia and China by Dina Esfandiary and Ariane Tabatabai
Dr. Pierre Noël Joins CGEP as Global Research Scholar
Ringing the Alarm on the Strategic Petroleum Reserve
Iran eyeing more attacks on oil supply as part of sanctions relief push: analysts
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