Current active course description (last updated 2020/21)
Geopolitics and Energy
EN304E
Current active course description (last updated 2020/21)
Geopolitics and Energy
EN304E
This course introduces students to key concepts and cases to understand how differnt factors shape national and international energy policies and relations.
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 years Master of Science in International Governance or at the semester package "Business and Governance in the Arctic".
Knowledge
- have advanced knowledge about key contemporary and historical trends that shape policy choices in energy producing and consuming countries:
- have thorough knowledge of 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;
- can analyze implications of these trends and concepts in key case study countries and regions (i.e. Arctic/Norway, Middle East, Russia and Central Asia).
Skills
- can analyze scholarly texts on energy politics;
- can apply knowledge to today's energy issues and put them in a broader historical/conceptual/ institutional context;
- can analyze energy issues combining both practical knowledge of key trends/countries/regions and course concepts.
General competence
- can take a critical stance towards abstract concepts introduced in the course;
- can demonstrate ability to transfer knowledge from the energy sector to look at other key economic issues with an appreciation of cross-cutting socio-political factors of relevance.
No tuition fees. Costs for semester registration and course literature apply.
Compulsory
Teaching in the classroom, cases, group work and presentaions.
The course is evaluated annually by students. These evaluations are included in the universitys quality assurance system.
Pen, pencil, ruler, bilingual dictionary and simple calculator.
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