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IR 353 Energy Security and Foreign Policy

This course examines the challenge for energy security in relation to foreign policy analysis. The course has three parts. The first part outlines the continuities and changes in the global energy market to underline the emerging challenges in securing energy supplies, access to resources and the environment. The second part presents different theoretical approaches to facilitate a conceptual framework in analyzing how energy security relates to foreign policy. The third part focuses on selected issues and cases to analyze and discuss energy security and foreign policy in the light of the different conceptual frameworks presented in the second part of the course. Credit units: 3 ECTS Credit units: 5.

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