New Delhi
Hotel Samrat
15 - 16 December, 2006
Organized jointly by
Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA) and
International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO)
Emerging Asia is changing the dynamics of the energy market. The growing demand for oil and gas from Asia (especially China and India) is unfolding new patterns of energy trade with obvious security implications. Asia is increasingly becoming susceptible and vulnerable to the twists and turns of the global energy market. While for the consumers, finding secure energy sources is critical, for the exporters too, the need to find stable, secure markets has become an imperative. With large and diverse stakeholders, the global energy security regime needs to move towards a cooperative structure. Ironically such initiatives are sometimes perceived with suspicion, giving rise to new tensions between old and new stakeholders, and even creating new fault lines for future conflicts.
To address these issues the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA) and the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO) organized an academic conference on The Geopolitics of Energy Security: The Rise of Asia, which took place in New Delhi, 15-16 December 2006.
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IDSA-PRIO International Conference on The Geopolitics of Energy Security: The Rise of Asia
China in African Oil
Åshild Kolås has published an article in the June issue of the newsletter for Economists for Peace & Security (EPS Quarterly). The article is entitled: China in African Oil: Guilty as Charged?
The Geopolitics of Energy Security: The Rise of Asia
During 2006, the issue of energy security emerged as one of the most pressing concerns of the international community. It was also the topic of a conference held in New Delhi on 15–16 December – organized jointly by PRIO and the Indian Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA) – that took a ground-breaking look at the linkages between three vital issues: global warming, peak oil and the world’s growing dependency on Persian Gulf oil reserves.
