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NATO's Energy Security Agenda and US Strategy
- Author(s):
- Cagdas Dedeoglu (see profile)
- Date:
- 2015
- Group(s):
- Environmental Humanities
- Subject(s):
- Energy policy, Ecology, Security, International
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- energy
- Permanent URL:
- https://doi.org/10.17613/cssp-6228
- Abstract:
- This paper examines North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) as one of the most important instruments of the U.S. Strategy from energy security perspective. The main purpose, here, is to discuss the evolution of NATO in late 2000s and to show how it was designed in that period as a dimension of the U.S. Strategy for sustaining energy security. The paper argues that NATO has been transformed in various ways and the process was mainly managed by the U.S. Administration. Therefore, an analogy between the transformation of NATO and the U.S. Administration’s priorities about energy security in late 2000s can be made. Today, natural gas is also a key factor together with oil. Any state’s target to expand its circle and area of interest towards Middle East can be associated with distribution of oil reserves. On the other hand, when it comes to Eurosia, natural gas also becomes key element of energy activities. As a result of efforts of the late 2000s, NATO came to a position that was compatible with the U.S. Strategy. It can be said that the U.S. Strategy had produced a threat perception to unify NATO members for the purpose of influencing energy game. On the other hand, the confrontations in Georgia before or in Ukraine last year show that the Alliance cannot resolve every conflict in its own terms.
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- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 10 months ago
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