China or the United States: which threatens energy security?

OPEC Review ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 215-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wu Lei ◽  
Liu Xuejun
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Energy Security ◽  
The United States

The Era of Distrust

2021 ◽  
pp. 217-248
Author(s):  
Jacob Darwin Hamblin
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Nuclear Weapons ◽  
Energy Security ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Developing World ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
Nuclear Technology ◽  
Government Interests

By the mid-1980s, the state-sponsored positive framing of the peaceful atom served a range of government interests. It enabled the United States and European states to use nuclear power as leverage against developing countries in a time when petroleum seemed to swing the pendulum of global resource dominance toward several so-called backward countries. It was useful to countries trying to prop up the legitimacy of their nuclear weapons programs, while secretly working on bombs, and it provided environmental arguments to those whose priority was actually energy security. The peaceful atom’s promise of plenty helped to maintain a veneer of credibility for the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, at a time when the IAEA seemed to have become the treaty’s policing instrument. The more the United States relied on the IAEA, the more it recommitted to making promises of peaceful nuclear technology, especially to the developing world.

India in 2006: A New Emphasis on Engagement

Asian Survey ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter R. Lavoy
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Energy Security ◽  
The United States ◽  
Great Powers ◽  
Strategic Partnership ◽  
New Delhi ◽  
The Military ◽  
First Time

India took important steps in 2006 to develop its economy and improve its standing abroad. Strengthening its strategic partnership with the United States, while at the same time maintaining positive relations with China, was a particularly important achievement. Increased attention to energy security has driven India to reach out to countries well beyond its borders. For the first time in India's history, New Delhi appears comfortable using the military and diplomatic tools that great powers have used throughout history.

China’s modern energy policy: challenges and prospects

2020 ◽  
Vol 61 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Malakkhanim Inglab Ismayilova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Economic Growth ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Energy Policy ◽  
Energy Security ◽  
Energy Demand ◽  
The United States ◽  
Future Prospects ◽  
Energy Complex ◽  
Growing Economy

China is the world's rapidly growing economy after the United States. Economic growth has increased China's energy demand. Ensuring energy security is important for China. In order to study China's modern energy policy, the article first examines the nature of the country's fuel and energy complex. The future prospects and problems of this field were discussed. The article also examines the main threats to China’s modern energy security. Key words: energy, energy security, energy policy, China’s development, fuel and energy complex

scholarly journals Energy Policy: Past or Prologue?

Daedalus ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 141 (2) ◽  
pp. 31-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Graetz
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
United States ◽  
Energy Policy ◽  
Energy Security ◽  
Energy Production ◽  
The United States ◽  
Short Term ◽  
The Past ◽  
Oil Embargo ◽  
Silver Bullet

The United States was remarkably complacent about energy policy until the Arab oil embargo of 1973. Since then, we have relied on unnecessarily costly regulations and poorly designed subsidies to mandate or encourage particular forms of energy production and use. Our presidents have quested after an elusive technological “silver bullet.” Congress has elevated parochial interests and short-term political advantages over national needs. Despite the thousands of pages of energy legislation enacted over the past four decades, Congress has never demanded that Americans pay a price that reflects the full costs of the energy they consume. Given our nation's economic fragility, our difficult fiscal situation, and the daunting challenges of achieving energy security and limiting climate change, we can no longer afford second- and third-best policies. This essay discusses the failures of the past and how we might avoid repeating them.

Regional Energy Security Cooperation and Geo-Politics with Specific References to India

2005 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 357-402
Author(s):  
Akhilesh Chandra Prabhakar
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Energy Security ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
Security Cooperation ◽  
The West ◽  
Regional Energy ◽  
Vital Interest ◽  
The One ◽  
Transit Routes

Abstract The path from Africa to Indonesia – via West Asia, Central Asia, South Asia, and Southeast Asia – has been of vital interest to North America. Situated at a junction of three continents – namely Asia, Africa, and Europe – linkage over land and across sea between Europe and the Indian Sub-continent on the one side and Africa and India on the other side, it offers the shortest and cheapest trade and transit routes between the West and the East. It commands a vast reservoir of oil – about 60 percent of the world's proven reserves of oil – which enormously contributes to the affluence of the United States.

scholarly journals Test and Evaluation of Shale Derived Jet Fuel by the United States Air Force

1985 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. L. Delaney
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Air Force ◽  
Energy Security ◽  
United States Air Force ◽  
The United States ◽  
Jet Fuel ◽  
Quality Assurance Program ◽  
Synthetic Fuels ◽  
Synthetic Fuel ◽  
Test And Evaluation

In June 1980, the United States Congress passed the Energy Security Act which provided for the formation of the United States Synthetic Fuels Corporation and amended the Defense Production Act of 1950 to provide for synthetic fuels for the Department of Defense (DOD). A subsequent law, P.L., 96-304, appropriated up to $20 billion for financial incentives to foster a national synthetic fuel industry. The initial synthetic fuel project funded under the Energy Security Act is the Unocal Parachute Creek Project in Colorado with an expected shale oil production of 10,000 bbls/day. The Defense Fuel Supply Center (DFSC) contracted with Gary Energy Refining Company, Fruita, Colorado to provide approximately 5000 bbls/day of shale JP-4 for the United States Air Force (USAF) using crude from the Parachute Creek project, with initial deliveries to begin in 1985. The USAF immediately accelerated preparations for the eventual operational use of shale derived fuels for turbine engine aircraft. An extensive test and evaluation program was initiated consisting of aviation turbine fuel processing, fuel characterization, aircraft component and subsystem testing, engine and flight testing. This paper describes the testing program that was accomplished, the significant results which were determined and the quality assurance program that is being implemented to assure that the shale fuel meets the requirements of JP-4, the standard USAF jet fuel.

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