Current active course description (last updated 2018/19)
Geopolitics and Energy
EN304E
Current active course description (last updated 2018/19)
Geopolitics and Energy
EN304E
This course introduces students to key concepts and cases to understand how interrelated political, security-related, regulatory and structural/physical factors shape national and international energy policies and relations. The course discusses the following: History and changing structure of the petroleum industry, Growth of renewable energy sources and the politics of climate change, Role of international politics and organizations in shaping energy markets and choices, Energy security challenges and strategies at national and international levels, Energy poverty challenges, solutions, outlooks, Petroleum revenues and political development (key concepts like dutch disease, resource curse), The role of private sector actors in shaping energy markets, Private sector-state-society relations in petroleum rich countries (CSR, equity questions), Policy approaches to infrastructure and innovation challenges.
The course is only open to students in the study program Master of Science in Global Management or the semester package "Business and Governance in the Arctic"
Students must be admitted to the two-year Master of Science in Energy Management program or the semester package "Business and Governance in the Arctic".
Knowledge
Upon completion of the course, the students will have the knowledge and understanding about:
- key contemporary and historical trends that shape policy choices in energy producing and consuming countries:
- core concepts relating to the socio-political side of energy markets, such as energy security, Dutch disease, energy poverty, resource curse and corporate social responsibility;
- implications of these trends and concepts in key case study countries and regions (i.e. Arctic/Norway, Middle East, Russia and Central Asia).
Skills
Upon completion of the course, the students will be able to:
- discuss and analyze scholarly texts on energy politics;
- apply knowledge to recent and breaking energy issues and put them in a broader historical/conceptual/institutional context;
- carry out written analysis of energy issues combining both practical knowledge of key trends/countries/regions and course concepts.
General competence
Upon completion of the course, the students will be able to:
- present orally to their peers;
- use and also take a critical stance towards abstract concepts introduced in the course;
- transfer knowledge from the energy sector t look at other key economic issues with an appreciation of cross-cutting socio-political factors of relevance.
No special costs except syllabus literature
Compulsory for the master program in Energy Management
Lectures
The course is evaluated annually by students by way of course evaluation studies (final evaluation). These evaluations are included in the universitys quality assurance system.
All support materials allowed.
Overlap refers to a similarity between courses with the same content. Therefore, you will receive the following reduction in credits if you have taken the courses listed below:
EN301E - The Geopolitics of Petroleum and Natural Gas - 5 credits