Testimony Before the U.S. Senate on European Energy Security
Dr. Brenda Shaffer testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Subcommittee on European Affairs during a hearing titled “Renewed Focus on European Energy Security.” Her testimony examined Europe’s energy security challenges, the strategic importance of natural gas supplies, and the geopolitical implications of Europe’s reliance on external energy sources. In her testimony, Dr. […]
Stopping Russia from Cornering Europe’s Energy Market
Nagorno-Karabakh After Crimea
Pipeline Problems: Ukraine Isn’t Europe’s Biggest Energy Risk
Can New Energy Supplies Bring Peace?
In this Mediterranean Policy Program brief for the German Marshall Fund’s Eastern Mediterranean Energy Project, Dr. Brenda Shaffer examines claims that the natural gas discoveries offshore Israel and Cyprus could serve as a catalyst for regional peace. She finds the odds are low: the reserves are too modest to reshape major export markets, the potential […]
Locked Out
Gas Politics After Ukraine
Iran: More Than Persia
Natural Gas Supply Stability and Foreign Policy
Natural gas, unlike oil, moves mainly through fixed pipelines under long-term contracts, which gives politics far more room to shape supply than it does in the oil market. Brenda Shaffer studies 35 gas supply relationships and two case studies to show that disruptions can be triggered by supplier, transit, or consumer states alike, and that […]
Security and Crossborder Cooperation in the Black Sea region
In this chapter, “Energy and Security in the South Caucasus” (in Security and Cross-Border Cooperation in the EU, the Black Sea Region and Southern Caucasus, ed. Ayça Ergun and Hamlet Isaxanli, NATO Science for Peace and Security Series, IOS Press, 2013, pp. 167-175), Brenda Shaffer looks at how much energy actually shapes security outcomes in […]