April 3/5 -- Introduction: What is Energy Security?

• Ideas for Projects

• Daniel Yergin views on current state of the oil Markets (Video, May 2016)

• Overview Bernell-Simon Chapter 1

• Daniel Yergin: Energy Security Overview

• Alan Krupnik, President Trump's Vision of Energy Security, Milken Institute Review, February 27,2017

• Overview of Fuels Paradise, Chapter 1

• Definitions of Energy Security, Fuels Paradise, Chapter 2

April 10/12 -- Introduction to Energy Markets

• Daniel Yergin views on shale, LNG (video)

• Daniel Yergin: Energy Security and Markets

• IEA Energy Security Index

• Basic Microeconomics

• Introduction to Markets and Competition

• Price Theory Applications

• Commodity Prices: Trends, Super-Cycles, and Short-Run Spikes and Busts

• Commodity Agreements

• EIA Energy Markets 2014

• EIA Oil Markets 2016

• Oil Markets: Crude Predicement

• The 2014-15 Oil Price Drop

• EAG Seminar on Causes and Consequences of the Oil Price Decline, February 20, 2014

• Robert Looney/Dave Schrady, Estimating the Economic Benefits Derived From Forward-engaged Naval Forces, CSIS, May 5-6, 1997

Review of Basic Microeconomic Supply and Demand

• Ed Dolan, Chocolate Lovers Keep Nervous Watch on Volatile Cocoa Prices, October 10, 2010

• Ed Dolan, Why is Oilive Oil, Good for the Body, Getting Hard on the Pocket Book?, February 4, 2013, 2010

• Ed Dolan, Will Fracking Enrich India's guar Farmers, July 30, 2012

• Ed Dolan, Does Peak Phosphate Spell Doom for Humanity or Will supply and Demand Save Us? July 30, 2013

• Ed Dolan, Technology, Environment and The Future of Natural Gas, February 24, 2010

• How the U.S. and OPEC Drive Oil Prices, New York Times, September 30, 2015

• OPEC Agreement and Likely Prices, Financial Times, November 2016

• Bloomberg March 2017 Oil Price Prospects

• BP Energy Outlook, 2017 edition (video)

• EIA Energy Outlook 2017

• BP Energy Outlook Presentation 2017 edition.

• WEF, Game Changers in the Global Energy System, 2017

• Oil Major's Diversify into Shale, Oxford Analytica, March 2017

• Geopolitics of Oil and Energy, Summer, 2015

• Economic Security: Resources

• BP Energy Outlook 2035 -- US. Summary, 2017

• Geopolitics of Lower Oil Prices, EIA, June 2015

• Video on Stranded Assets

• Bassam Fattouh, Oxford Institute of Energy Studies, Global Oil Markets - Current Developments and Future Prospects, Presented at the Bank of England, London, July 17, 2015

• Coal Markets

• Coal Markets: Structural Weaknesses

• Nuclear Rebound?

• Paul Sullivan, Oil Supply in Handbook of Oil Politics

• Laura Graefe, Peak Oil in Handbook of Oil Politics

• Jean-Francois Seznec, NOCs/IOCs in Handbook of Oil Politics

• Prospects for Alternative Energy, -- Older

• NS4043 Group Project 2012, Is a Domestic Biofuel Industry Necessary for National Defense?

April 24, 26 Elements of Energy Policy

• Bernell-Simon Chapter 2

• Bernell-Simon Chapter 3

• The U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve

• U.S. Oil Exports and Energy Security

• North America Energy Trilemma, 2015

• Trilemma Priorities -- Statistical Test

• National Security and Climate Change

• National Security and the Chinese Yuan

• Robert Looney, Ch. 14 The U.S. in Handbook of Energy and Climate Security

• Carbon Tax vs. Cap-and-Trade

• Congressional Budget Office Assessment of a Carbon Tax in the US

• Canadian Views on a Carbon Tax

• Carbon Tax vs Cap and Trade at University of Texas (video)

• Australian Views on a Carbon Tax -- positive

• Australian Views on a Carbon Tax -- negative

• Discussion papers 10-21/26

• Nuclear Energy Policy in the Aftermath of Fukushima -- NS4053 class project fall 2012

• Climate Change, Energy and Security

May 1/3 U.S. Energy Policy

From Last Class

• Views on a Carbon Tax

• California Cap and Trade

• Duffield, Chapter 3, Responses to Energy Insecurity

• U.S. Quadrenial Energy Review 2015

• U.S. Energy Planning in a Period of Rapid Change (USQER Summary)

May 1/3 U.S. Energy Policy

• Bernell-Simon Chapter 4

• Bernell-Simon Chapter 5

• Prospects for Renewables

• Admiral Blair interview on U.S. energy security (video)

• Liquid Markets: Assessing the Case for U.S. Exports of LNG, Brookings, May 11, 2012

• Edward Morse, Aspects of the Crude Oil Debate, CITI Research, February 2014

• US Climate Regulations

• US Fracking Regulations

• EPA Fuel Standards

• US LNG Exports

• Climate Policies, Energy and Economic Security

• Geopolitics of the U.S. Shale Boom

May 8 U.S. Energy Policy: International Dimensions

• Bernell-Simon Chapter 6

• Global Tensions .and Economic Security, CCMR Lecture May 11, 2017

May 10/ Energy Security Issues in Middle East/Africa

• Video IMF Assessmnt MENA Region, October 2015

• Oil Curse Patterns

• Robert Looney, Nigeria: Current Problems and Progress, Milken Institute Review, Second Quarter 2015

• Nigeria: Recent Assessments, 2017

• Ghana and the Oil curse

• Ghana 2017 Budget Issues

• Angola Oil curse

• MENA Energy Security Issues, 2017

• Algeria Oil Dependency

• Algeria Case Study -- Oil Price Drop

• Iraq Post ISIS Reconstruction -- Electricity Sector

• Bassam Fattouh, Oxford Institute of Energy Studies, Saudi Arabia's Oil Policy in Uncertain Times: A Shift in Paradigm, October 21, 2014

• Saudi Arabia Economic Convergence

• Comission on Energy and Geopolitics, 2015 -- MENA Scenarios

• Comission on Energy and Geopolitics, 2015 -- Sub-Sahara Africa Scenarios

• IMF Commodity Curse Course I

• IMF Commodity Curse Course II

• AngloAmerican, Resource Nationalism -- Issues and Potential Responses, February 2013

May 17/22 Asia Energy Security

• Revolution in Asia-Pacific Energy Markets, May 2015

China

• China Growth Scenarios

• China Renewables

• China Coal

• China Nuclear

• China Energy Diplomacy

• China Energy Landscape

• China Resource Investments
  Video on China https://worldview.stratfor.com/article/questioning-chinas-upward-trajectory

Japan/Korea/Australia

• Korea Energy Policy

• Japan Energy Outlook

• Japan Energy Security

• Australia Energy Policy

Other Presentations on Asia-Pacific Region

• Overview Japan, SE Asia

• Comission on Energy and Geopolitics, 2015, China Scenarios

• Brian Woodall, Japan's Approach to Energy Security

• Japan's Current Nuclear Policy, October 2015

May 24/31 Europe/Russia/Central Asia Energy Security

• Robert Looney, Western Europe Energy Security

• Inherent Inconsistency of EU Energy Policymaking (video)

• Geopolitics of EU Russia Energy (video)

• German Nuclear Phase-out (video)

• Russia-China Energy Cooperation (video)

• European Views on Energy Security (video)

• Issues in EU Energy Security

June 5/7 The Americas

• EIA North American Energy Outlook 2016

• Mexico's Energy Reforms

• Baker Institute Background on Mexico's Energy Reforms (video)

• Wilson Center, Current Status of Energy Reforms (video)

• Problems at Pemex

• Mexico, Poor Regulation Undermines Energy Reforms

• Mexico: Electricity Prices

• Petrocaribe

• Cuban Energy Security

• Central American Energy Security

• Latin American LNG Market

• Bolivia China Hydro Development

• Big Picture on Climate Talks, WSJ, November 2015

• Martin Wolf on the Paris Climate Conference

• Targets at the Paris Climate Conference

June 12 Canada/US Summing Up

• Trump Administration Energy Deregulation

• Bernell-Simon Chapter 7

• How the Keystone XL Pipeline Got (So) Political | The New York Times January 8, 2015

• Oil Price Ratles Keystone Pipeline, Financial Times, January 2015

• The Keystone Decision Wall Street Journal, November 2015

• U.S. Oil Exports and Energy Security

• Climate Change and Energy Security