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094217
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2010.
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The following article will analyse the global and geopolitical dimensions of the future international energy security and its implications for Europe and the EU-27. In this context, I will discuss to which extent the EU's newly proclaimed "Energy Action Plan" of the EU Spring summit of 2007 and its declared common energy (foreign) policy are a sufficient strategy to cope with the new global and geopolitical challenges. The article concludes the following: (1) The interlinkage between globally designed traditional energy security concepts - that rely just on economic factors and "market-strategies" - and domestic as well as regional political stability demands new thinking with regard to both energy supply security and foreign and security policies. (2) Although after the Russian-Ukrainian gas conflict in January 2006, energy security has forced its way up the European energy and foreign policy agendas, the EU-27 member states have largely failed to forge a coherent European energy security and energy foreign policy strategy after their Spring summit of 2007 because its declared political solidarity has been still lacking. But the 2nd Strategic Energy Review of November 2008 has recommended new initiatives to overcome this lack by promoting concrete infrastructure and other projects for enhancing Europe's supply security and its political solidarity as part of a common energy (foreign) policy. If the EU is able to implement the March 2007 and November 2008 decisions, the EU oil and gas demand will drastically reduce and freeze at current levels. In this case, Putin's energy policies by using Russia's energy resources and pipeline monopolies as a political instrument to enforce its economic and geopolitical interests will be proved as self-defeating in Russia's long-term strategic interests. It will reduce Gazprom's gas exports to a much smaller EU gas market than originally forecasted as the result of a deliberate EU policy of decreasing its overall gas demand and by diversifying its gas imports.
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133604
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2014.
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This article describes India's energy situation in the midst of current economic and geopolitical challenges while highlighting some of the key issues pertaining to India's natural gas infrastructure. The infrastructure dealt with in this article includes natural gas grids (networks of natural gas pipelines) and Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) terminals which are planned to be expanded further, as well as transnational gas pipelines from and through countries like Iran, Turkmenistan, Myanmar, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh, which have been pursued by the Indian government for a long time. Other infrastructure such as city gas distribution, consisting of Piped Natural Gas (PNG) for domestic and commercial use and Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) for use in automobile industries, remains outside the scope of this article. The article further highlights how such an energy situation coupled with poor natural gas infrastructure has deepened India's energy crisis, characterised by poor performance of the power sector, particularly those run on natural gas. It gives some recommendations for improving such infrastructure and better gas diplomacy for its transnational gas pipelines which could lead to better and faster distribution of natural gas across the country. The article also highlights the preferred course of action for the government, besides offering policy prescriptions in due course.
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2014.
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At a time when Asia is at a defining moment in its history, water stress has emerged as one of its most serious challenges. Water shortages have not only stirred geopolitical tensions by intensifying competition over the resources of shared rivers and aquifers, but they also threaten Asia's continued economic rise.
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