2023/2024
Global Energy Governance: actors, institutions and frames (I)
Type:
Minor
Delivered by:
School of International Affairs
When:
3, 4 module
Open to:
students of all HSE University campuses
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
5
Contact hours:
60
Course Syllabus
Abstract
This is a comprehensive course covering the main themes of the global energy order from its early years in the 19th century to the present day with a particular focus on energy policies and the role of energy in international relations. The course is aimed at equipping students with comprehensive ideas about energy policy and diplomacy at the global, the international-regional and the national level. The global processes under consideration include the study of energy geopolitics, international political aspects of the problem of transition to a carbon-free economy, the relationship between diplomacy, energy and ecology. At the international-regional level, the energy strategies of the world's largest players are analyzed: the USA, China, the EU countries, Russia, the Middle East, as well as the international contradictions and conflicts associated with these strategies.
Learning Objectives
- To understand the contemporary role of energy in shaping political, economic and military objectives of individual countries;
- To develop an understanding of the drivers of international energy relations
- The understand the main trends in modern energy policy and diplomacy
- To learn modern theoretical and methodological ideas about the role of energy policy and diplomacy
- To develop an understanding of the main concepts and theoretical approaches to the subject of international energy relations, as well as the key problems and contradictions that exist in this area
Expected Learning Outcomes
- Analyzes the relationship between domestic and foreign policy components in large developing countries.
- Analyzes the relationship between domestic and foreign policy components in oil-producing developing countries.
- Analyzes the relationship between domestic and foreign policy components on the example of developed countries.
- Analyzes the features of political systems in their interaction with energy policy.
- Describes the theoretical aspects of analyzing interpretations of the role of oil and gas in contemporary conflicts
- Mentions non-market aspects of the global energy industry.
- Examines the organizations of the UN system dealing with energy issues
- Examines the main documents of the IAEA on the regulation of the energy sector
- Describes market, non-market and “hybrid” models of energy management
- Explains the "oil curse" in politics and political economy on the example of Iran, Iraq, Libya, Nigeria, Angola, Venezuela.
- Explains the relationship of world energy policy with world politics and international relations.
- Explains the main difference between normative approaches (neorealism, neoliberalism) and reflectivist or constructivist (in a broad sense) approaches.
- Explains the political and geopolitical vulnerability of the global oil market.
- Explains the role of the water and energy problem as a key structure-forming axis of the region's policy.
- Explains the environmental dimension of energy policy.
- Describes possible scenarios and risks for oil and gas producing countries
- Describes the activities of the IMF, the World Bank in the field of energy
- Describes the activities of international organizations and their low efficiency in the conditions of "global anarchy".
- Describes the history, functions and activities of OPEC and its impact on the oil market.
- Describes the main competing approaches to the study of world politics and international relations: neorealism, neoliberalism and constructivism.
- Describes the problems of interaction between the EU and Russia in the field of energy.
- Describes the process of establishing EU energy policy.
- Describes the US energy policy.
- Describes the energy policy of China and India.
Course Contents
- 1. Theoretical Foundations for the Study of Energy Policy and Diplomacy: World Energy as a Branch of Production and Business
- 2. Theoretical Foundations for the Study of Energy Policy and Diplomacy: World Energy as Politics and Strategy
- 3. Energy policy and the role of energy in international relations: theoretical approaches.
- 4. International Co-operation and Conflicts in the Energy field: a Comparative Assessment.
- 5. The Formation of the Modern System of International Energy Policy: Technological and Economic Aspects
- 6. Levels of Energy Policy and Diplomacy in the Modern World: Introducing the Global Level
- 7. Role of traditional institutions in the global energy order: the United Nations structure, International Agency for Atomic Energy, International Energy Agency, WTO, G7, the Energy Charter.
- 8. Role of new institutions in the global energy order: G20, SCO, and BRICS.
- 9. Levels of Energy Policy and Diplomacy in the Modern World: Interaction between Regional and National Levels
- 10. Features of energy policy at the national level: the relationship of domestic and foreign policy components in developed countries
- 11. Features of energy policy at the national level: the relationship of domestic and foreign policy components in large developing countries
- 12. Features of energy policy at the national level: the relationship of domestic and foreign policy components in oil-producing countries
- 13. OPEC and the evolution of the global oil market.
- 14. Resource nationalism and oil as an energy weapon.
- 15. The changing global energy outlook and the transforming global energy architecture.
Interim Assessment
- 2023/2024 4th module0.2 * Essay + 0.4 * Exam + 0.1 * Online lecture attendance + 0.3 * Seminar work
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Alpina - 18896 - Д.Ергин - Добыча: Всемирная история борьбы за нефть, деньги и власть - 9785961415384 - Альпина Паблишер - 2019 - https://hse.alpinadigital.ru/book/18896
- Федоров, О. В., Энергетическая политика : учебное пособие / О. В. Федоров, А. Б. Дарьенков. — Москва : КноРус, 2023. — 160 с. — ISBN 978-5-406-10704-1. — URL: https://book.ru/book/946790 (дата обращения: 27.08.2024). — Текст : электронный.
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Жуков, С. В., ОПЕК на мировом рынке нефти : учебное пособие / С. В. Жуков. — Москва : Русайнс, 2018. — 37 с. — ISBN 978-5-4365-3009-3. — URL: https://book.ru/book/931185 (дата обращения: 26.08.2024). — Текст : электронный.