Energy Security: Western Hemis

3 Credits · Level: Graduate

We start by examining energy flows at the national, sub-regional and hemispheric levels in the world context. The detailed analysis of sources and uses of energy at the different territorial levels will make possible the comparison among countries and the different regional levels leading up to hemispheric energy flow to be compared with the largest world countries and regions. During the second half of the course, based on the first descriptive section, we will move into more macro analyses, considering institutional and political economy of energy, analyses on the price of crude oil and future of energy, and a review of fiscal policies affecting the secto