{"id":3048,"date":"2014-12-15T15:42:34","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T20:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3048"},"modified":"2014-12-15T15:42:34","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T20:42:34","slug":"the-global-energy-security-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3048","title":{"rendered":"The Global Energy Security War"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Global Energy Security War<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Concerns about energy security have shot to the top of the political agenda in Europe. But the US has no intention of letting the EU down. \u201cThe United States will be working with the EU to develop a plan for the mid- to long-term evolution of a more energy-secure future\u201d, said US Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz at a conference of the Atlantic Council in Istanbul. At this summit, top US officials and energy experts showed themselves surprisingly positive about the progress the EU has made reducing its dependence on Russia. \u201cA few years ago, we couldn\u2019t have solved the Ukrainian problem. Now we can.\u201d With US LNG exports under way, the \u201cmonumental\u201d Southern Corridor under construction, and Gazprom\u2019s South Stream project increasingly under pressure, Europe\u2019s position will only get stronger. Karel Beckman reports from Istanbul.<\/em><\/p>\n

In his opening address at the Atlantic Council\u2019s Energy and Economic Summit 2014 in Istanbul (19-20 November), President and CEO Frederick Kempe immediately made it clear the Atlantic Council is playing for high stakes. \u201cEurope is in the middle of an inflection point of its history\u201d, he said. 2014 \u201cis every bit as dramatic as 1815 \u2013 the year of Versailles\u201d. Or, he added, 1989, the year of the fall of Communism. \u201cThe future of the international liberal order\u201d, said Kempe, \u201cis at stake\u201d.<\/p>\n

Actually, listening to many of the presentations at the Istanbul summit, the mood among the Americans recalled not so much of a specific year, as a period in history: the Cold War. Clearly for the Atlanticists \u2013 and it\u2019s probably fair to say that the bipartisan Atlantic Council represents the conventional geopolitical look of the Washingon DC establisment \u2013 with the \u201cresurgence\u201d of Russia the Cold War is back all the way.<\/p>\n

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The Global Energy Security War. Concerns about energy security have shot to the top of the political agenda in Europe. But the US has no intention of letting the EU down. \u201cThe United States will be working with the EU to develop a plan for the mid- to long-term evolution of a more energy-secure future\u201d, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[149,263,1946,355,862],"class_list":["post-3048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-geopolitics","tag-cold-war","tag-energy","tag-energy-security","tag-geopolitics-2","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3049,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3048\/revisions\/3049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}