European Energy Studies Volume IV: Security of Oil Supplies

Issues and Remedies

1st edition

European Energy Studies series

Giacomo Luciani, Adjunct Professor, Graduate Institute Geneva, Switzerland and Scientific Director of the Master in International Energy of the Paris School of International Affairs, Sciences-Po, France

This book was originally published by Claeys and Casteels, now formally part of Edward Elgar Publishing.

This book examines the potential threats to security of oil supplies: resource nationalism, political instability, international and domestic armed conflict, and terrorism or insurgency. A separate chapter is devoted to maritime choke points, such as the Strait of Hormuz.