Asian Strategic Review 2017: Energy Security in Times of Uncertainty

About the Book

The world is entering an era with increased global demand for energy, price volatility, and rising concerns about environmental burdens and the global impact of climate change. Directly or indirectly, these factors have given rise to related concerns such as deregulation and geopolitical uncertainties. Moreover, the challenges related to the energy issue go beyond scientific or technological aspects and extend to access to resources, regional conflicts, pricing and energy infrastructure management.

For Asian countries, the challenge is more critical. Rapid and sustained economic development has placed these countries at the epicentre of growth in global energy demand, which has changed direction from the West to the East, thereby altering the geopolitics of global energy. Climate and environmental concerns are driving technological innovations, causing a sea change in the kind and manner in which energy is used. In turn, these changes have thrown up new energy policy and security challenges for Asian governments. Conversely, the choices and policies that have, and will be, adopted by the Asian countries will have far-reaching implications for the world.

The focus of Asian Strategic Review 2017 is on tracing the contours of the current energy markets, the policies adopted by some of the key nations in their quest to enhance their energy security, and the challenges that are likely to come up in the future.

About the Editors

Jayant Prasad is Director General, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi. He was India's Ambassador to Afghanistan, Algeria, Nepal, and the UN Conference on Disarmament, Geneva. At headquarters, in the Ministry of External Affairs, he served as Special Secretary (Public Diplomacy), and Head of the Americas and the Multilateral Economic Relations Divisions. He was Rapporteur of the U.N. Commission on Human Rights, Geneva (1986-87), Fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University (1998-99), member of U.N. Secretary-General’s Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters (2005-07), and Visiting Scholar, Center for the Advanced Study of India, University of Pennsylvania (2014-15). Before his 37-year public service career, he was lecturer in history, St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi, after completing his studies at Modern School, St. Stephen’s College, and Jawarharlal Nehru University.

Shebonti Ray Dadwal is a Senior Fellow with the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA), heading the Non-Traditional Security Centre at the Institute. Prior to joining IDSA, she served as Deputy Secretary at the National Security Council Secretariat and was Senior Editor with The Financial Express. She is a member of the CSCAP Study Group on Energy Security as well as member of the Core Group on Myanmar of the MEA's Indian Council of World Affairs (ICWA).

In April 2009, she was awarded a Chevening Fellowship by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office of the UK on completion of a course in Economics of Energy at the Institute for Energy Research and Policy, University of Birmingham, UK. She is also a member of the Editorial Board of IDSA's flagship journal, Strategic Analysis.

Her research focus is on Energy Security and she has recently published a monograph on The Geopolitics of America's Energy Independence: Implications for China, India and the Global Energy Market. She has written two books. The first, Rethinking Energy Security in India was published in 2002, and this is her second book. She is also the co-editor of Non-Traditional Security Challenges in Asia: Approaches and Responses, published by Routledge in 2015, and has co-authored the IDSA Report on Security Implications of Climate Change for India (2009), apart from writing several peer-reviewed articles and papers focusing on Energy Security.

Contents

Foreword

Contributors

1. Hydrocarbon Markets in Asia: Adapting to Changing Narratives
   -- Lydia Powell
2. Continuity through Change: China’s Energy Security in a New Era
   -- Cui Shoujun
3. A Relook on Energy Security After Fukushima
   -- Masakazu Toyoda
4. Ensuring South Korea’s Energy Security? Priorities, Problems and Prospects
   -- Se Hyun Ahn
5. Russia’s Asian Energy Pivot: A Prodigious Realignment
   -- Rajeev Lala
6. Disruption in the Global Energy Order: Geopolitical Ramifications for West Asia
   -- Girijesh Pant
7. Energy Connectivity in Asia: The India-ASEAN Case1
   -- Nitya Nanda
8. The Asian Nuclear Power Landscape: A Contemporary Examination
   -- Manpreet Sethi
9. Renewable Energy and Critical Minerals: Access to Resourcesin Asia’s Energy Paradigm
   - Swati Ganeshan
10. Ensuring Asia’s Energy Security: Role of Energy StorageTechnology
    -- Bhupendra Kumar Singh
11. Asia’s Energy Security: An Uncertain Outlook
    -- Shebonti Ray Dadwal

Index

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