Energy Security and Foreign Policy: The Case of the Caspian
On October 27, 2017, Brenda Shaffer spoke at the Naval Postgraduate School’s Energy Academic Group on why successive U.S. administrations have kept pushing Caspian energy development and westward pipeline routes, even as America’s own oil and gas production has boomed. Her answer was that Washington’s real interest isn’t the energy itself but international security: giving […]