Posted: September 16th, 2017

International Energy Politics. Detailes in description area and attached.

International Energy Politics. Detailes in description area and attached.

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Please chooseONE of the following questions

1. Critically analyse the extent to which the financial autonomy of oil producing states grants them freedom from social pressures? Answer with at least reference to two countries.

2. Critically evaluate whether Klare’s 2001 prediction of an ‘emerging landscape of conflict’ based on natural resources has proved accurate in the last decade?

3. Can resource nationalism and energy interdependence be reconciled?

4. Critically analyse the extent to which Russia is using energy as a foreign policy weapon to gain leverage and influence over the European Union?

5. How has the introduction of hydraulic fracking changed the dynamics of international energy security?

6. Critically analyse the extent to which China’s new oil diplomacy altered its relations with other oil importing states?

7. How valid is the ‘blood for oil’ thesis when applied to US foreign policy?