Tag: oil

Medill Explores: Hostile Environment Training and National War College

Petro politics: Of demand, supply and the national security conundrum

By Shahzeb Hashim on February 27, 2017March 2, 2017 oil

During a lecture at the National War College, Medill graduate students were briefed on the latest thinking about the national security implications of petro-politics.

International Relations

Energy independence enables greater US role in Middle East

By Harvard Zhang on August 5, 2016 Middle East, oil

The U.S. should steady its presence in the Middle East even though it becomes less reliant on oil imports.

International Relations

The geopolitics of fracking

By Marisa Endicott on May 26, 2016 conflict, energy, extraction, fracking, fuel, gas, geopolitics, hydraulic fracturing, international relations, Iraq, market, Middle East, oil, politics, shale boom, USA

While recent debates over hydraulic fracturing have remained mostly in the domestic sphere, the significant geopolitical effects of this huge shift in fuel production continue to play out.