Qatar,Energy Security Geopol

3 Credits · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

The seminar’s goal is to offer an in-depth and novel exploration of how Qatar in particular, and other major energy players more generally, use their energy capabilities and resources as instruments of power that contribute to their national strategic and security priorities. The seminar will achieve this by offering a mix of lectures, discussions and presentations by a range of guest speakers – both scholars from academia and the policy world and practitioners working on energy security As the above underscores, this seminar is designed to provide students with an opportunity to consider Qatar as an international energy actor in the wider international system from several different perspectives. In doing so it will attempt to illuminate how Qatar is adapting to changing realities in the global energy markets and how it is using energy as a strategic instrument to navigate a challenging geopolitical landscape. This will include examining the emerging strategic opportunities as well as legal and national security risks in Qatar’s overseas energy assets and investments; Qatar’s evolving energy relations with a host of key regional (GCC, Turkey, Iran) and global (the US, Russia, China, South Korea, Japan, the UK) energy, trade and security partners; and how the quest for sustainability and the new reality created by the fourth (AI) industrial revolution are impacting on Qatar’s energy sector and relations with energy partners and competitors.