Publications

Cooperating in the Energy Security Regime Complex (MacArthur ASI WP No. 18)
Organisation: NTS, RSIS
Type: Working Papers
17 August 2011
Abstract
Existing work on energy security tends to overemphasise the prospect of competition and conflict over resources while under-exploring the promise of cooperation among global and regional economies. Viewing energy security through the spectre of armed conflict traps policy planners in a zero-sum analysis, which strongly suggests that the energy security of one country can only be achieved at the expense of another. Yet such a conclusion is fundamentally flawed, since it ignores the increasingly complex interdependence in the energy and product trade chain among countries, globally and regionally.