Description
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are in disarray, and shifts in the field of energy have the potential to drastically affect the course of political and economic developments in the region. Declining oil prices, skyrocketing domestic demand, the rise of unconventional oil and natural gas production in North America, as well as shifting patterns of global energy trade all put severe pressures on both producing and importing countries in the MENA region. Policy-makers are facing fundamental challenges in light of the duality of grand transformations in (geo)politics and energy. Changes in the field of energy require substantial political and economic reforms, affecting the very fabric of sociopolitical arrangements. At the same time, the MENA region’s geopolitical volatility makes any such reforms extremely risky.
Including contributions by academics and analysts from both inside and outside the MENA region, this volume explores the changes in global and regional energy, the impact of changing international energy dynamics on politics and economies in the MENA region, and the challenges that will result.
This is essential reading for researchers, postgraduates, and professionals in Middle Eastern and North African politics, global energy governance and regionalism.
Table of Contents
Introduction
David Ramin Jalilvand and Kirsten Westphal
Chapter 1 – Regional trends after the dissolution of "old orders" in the Middle East and North Africa
Guido Steinberg and Isabelle Werenfels
Chapter 2 – The Price War, OPEC and the Future of the MENA Region
Giacomo Luciani
Chapter 3 – Global Gas and LNG markets: The role for MENA countries
Anne-Sophie Corbeau
Chapter 4 – Renewable Energy: a recent, but dynamic trend in the MENA region
Sybille Röhrkasten and Mohammed Qader
Chapter 5 – The energy-climate-water nexus in the MENA region and the need for an integrate approach
Thomas Fink and Manfred Fischedick
Chapter 6 – Oil and Resilience: Changing Energy Dynamics and the Smaller Gulf States
Laura El-Katiri
Chapter 7 – Iranian energy between Nuclear Deal and Oil Price Decline
David Ramin Jalilvand
Chapter 8 – Struggling with low oil prices: from bad to worse in crisis-torn Iraq?
Luay Al Khatteeb
Chapter 9 – In Dire Need of a New Social Contract: Saudi Arabia’s Socioeconomic and Political Challenges
Sebastian Sons
Chapter 10 – The Eastern Mediterranean - an energy region in the making
Charles Ellinas
Chapter 11 – Cyprus: Energy Hopes and Political Troubles
Harry Tzimitras and Ayla Gurel
Chapter 12 – The impact of natural gas discoveries on Israeli politics, geopolitics and socioeconomic discourse
Elai Rettig
Chapter 13 – Jordan: Overcoming Energy Insecurity
Ayoub Abu-Dayyeh
Chapter 14 – Turkey: In Between Global Trends and Regional Politics
Ellen Scholl
Chapter 15 – Energy Politics in Egypt: A Quick Fix for Economic Problems
Stephan Roll and Mahmoud Ibrahim
Chapter 16 – Algeria: Global challenges, regional threats and missed opportunities
Gonzalo Escribano
Chapter 17 – Energy security, sustainability and development in Morocco
Georgeta Auktor
Chapter 18 – The energy-security nexus in MENA region – Appraising the role of the US, the EU, Russia and China
Kirsten Westphal
Conclusions and Outlook
David Ramin Jalilvand and Kirsten Westphal
