Syllabus 2023

Energy Security (JPM524)

Form: lecture / seminar

Time: Friday 9:30 – 10:50 a. m.

Room: C520

Lecturer: Jitka Holubcova, j_holubcova@yahoo.fr

Course Description:

Course aims at providing students with understanding of key paradigms of global energy security. Students will be confronted with energy security questions, such as interaction between traditional producers and transit routes on one hand and emerging producers and new energy markets on the other hand. Changes in national and regional energy mixes, rise of renewable energy sources and future of nuclear energy will be tackled, as well as ongoing turmoil in some regions as a factor for global energy security. Students shall develop ability to assess the situation in particular regions based on provided facts. Where useful, students will be asked to solve a case study or to come forward with energy security scenarios.

Requirements to pass the course:

1 Energy Security SWOT of home country or any territory, plus 1-2 most pressing issues covered in detail

· .ppt (max.7slides), or .doc (max 4pages)

· 15% of final mark

· Structure of presentation/document:

1 slide with SWOT grid
4 slides covering energy security S-W-O-T
1 slide covering 1-2 most pressing energy security issues – identify reasons and propose solutions
1 slide - sources

Form of delivery: Student posts the document in SIS/MS Teams (so that other students can access it) and send it to the lecturer via email for assessment.
Feedback received from lecturer covers pertinence, quality of personal assessment, AOB (quality of visuals, sources, organization of document). 50% threshold needed

2. Joint presentation of 1 selected energy security issue, based on SWOT and your previous discussion in pairs; (.ppt and presentation) 15% of final mark;

Method: students work in pairs, discuss their respective SWOTs, chose most interesting/pressing energy security issue, discuss it (reasons, possible alternative solutions, draw comparison, make assumptions) and present a comparison of the two different approaches to the rest of the class.
Form of delivery: scheduled presentation in class. 10mins max! (you need to practice time management), 10mins max Q&A session with colleagues.
Feedback received from lecturer covers pertinence, quality of personal assessment, AOB (quality of visuals, sources, time management). 70% threshold needed

3. Written exam – based on the information provided during the course and readings

necessary to reach 50% threshold
70% of final mark.
4 essay questions
open book exam.
In order to pass the exams, it is not recommended to present simple facts from the sources presented during the course. Students are required to analyze, model, combine the facts, draw conclusions to back their (junior) expert answer.
Form of the exam: in presence and on-line

Literature - recommended books and primary sources (plus there will be readings posted weak ahead of the particular sessions):

Communication from the European Commission: REPowerEU: affordable, secure and sustainable energy for Europe; COM(2022)230; https://ec.europa.eu/info/strategy/priorities-2019-2024/european-green-deal/repowereu-affordable-secure-and-sustainable-energy-europe_en

Communication from the European Commission: The European Green Deal ; Brussels, 11.19.2019; COM(2019) 640 final; https://ec.europa.eu/info/strategy/priorities-2019-2024/european-green-deal_en

(poss.) Communication from the European Commission: Energy Union Package - A Framework Strategy for a Resilient Energy Union with a Forward-Looking Climate Change Policy; Brussels, 25.2.2015; COM(2015) 80 final; http://ec.europa.eu/priorities/energy-union/docs/energyunion_en.pdf

Dellecker, Adrian – Gomart, Thomas: Russian Energy Security and Foreign Policy; New York: Routledge, 2011

Kaplan, Robert D.: The Revenge of geography what the map tells us about coming conflicts and the battle against fate; New York : Random House, 2012

Pascual, Carlos – Elkind, Jonathan: Energy Security: Economics, Politics, Strategies, and Implications; New York: Brookings Institution Press, 2009

Parra, Francisco: Oil politics : a modern history of petroleum; London : Tauris, 2010

Yafimava, Katja: The Transit Dimension of EU Energy Security – Russian Gas Transit Accross Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova; Oxford University Press, 2011

Yergin, Daniel: The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World, New York, The Penguin Press, 2011

Yergin, Daniel: The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations, Penguin Books, 2021

Course structure and timeframe for 2023 (tentative):

6. 10. Concepts and Paradigms - Concepts of energy security; drivers of energy security; international, regional and national energy security frameworks (Energy Charter, Energy Community, WTO, OPEC etc.), geopolitics of energy security

13. 10. Energy security of the EU (EU energy policy, Energy Union)

20. 10. EU Internal Energy Market - Regional cooperation in energy security

COP21 – Decarbonization policy as energy security driver

3. 11. Case study: EU as a net-zero economy by 2050: Is it tangible and what is the way towards climate neutrality?

10.11. Energy security of FSU countries (UA, BY)

24. 11. Energy security of the Russian Federation – Role of the Russian Federation for global/regional energy security

1. 12. Energy security of FSU countries (South Caucasus, Central Asia) – legal frameworks as enablers of energy security

8. 12. China – GHG emissions/imports

15. 12. Japan, South Korea et Cie. - Nuclear energy

22. 12. USA – Energy independence, LNG market

22.12. (poss.) TEST pre-session

9. 1. – 12. 2. 2023 - TEST (3 sessions)