Energy and Security Programme
This theme focuses on the national, geopolitical and environmental security risks of fossil fuel reliance and solutions for securing clean energy globally.
The nature and breadth of threats to the energy systems which underpin advanced economies is changing rapidly. The energy transition adds new dimensions to the strategic advantage in technology as well as the economic projection of power.
Established markets for fossil fuels may be disrupted and net zero creates new time pressures for hydrocarbons producers. Countries across the world need access to new technologies which will underpin economic and technological advantage, and the raw materials and industrial capacity to produce or import them.
Changes to the energy system touch nearly all aspects of life in advanced economies and the aspirations of developing countries and the ways in which this will disrupt the global balance of power and the risks that must be managed to maintain global influence need to be understood and managed.
Our experts
Dan Marks
Research Fellow for Energy Security
Cyber
Cathy Haenlein
Director of Organised Crime and Policing Studies
Organised Crime and Policing
Dr Carlos Solar
Senior Research Fellow, Latin American Security
International Security
Fellows
Dr Tobias Borck
Senior Associate Fellow
Dr James Henderson
Associate Fellow
RUSI International
Genevieve Kotarska
Associate Fellow | SHOC Network Member - Researcher
Dr Aura Sabadus
Associate Fellow
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