The New Geopolitics of European Energy Security
On May 5, 2014, the Wilson Center’s Global Europe Program hosted its annual Ahtisaari Symposium. This year’s expert panel addressed “The New Geopolitics of European Security.” Panelists discussed the transatlantic focus on energy security in the wake of the crisis with Ukraine and Russia including options for alternative sources of energy to decrease Europe’s dependence. The full transcript of the panel is available below.
On May 5, 2014, the Wilson Center’s Global Europe Program hosted its annual Ahtisaari Symposium. This year’s expert panel addressed “The New Geopolitics of European Security.” Participants included: Maïté de Boncourt, Research Fellow at the IFRI Center for Energy in Paris; Ariel Cohen, Senior Research Fellow at The Heritage Foundation; Robin Dunnigan from the Bureau of Energy Resources at the U.S. Department of State; Brenda Shaffer, Visiting Researcher in the Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies at Georgetown University; and Ambassador Wolfgang Ischinger, Chairman of the Munich Security Conference and Distinguished Scholar at the Wilson Center. Panelists discussed the transatlantic focus on energy security in the wake of the crisis with Ukraine and Russia including options for alternative sources of energy to decrease Europe’s dependence. The full transcript of the panel is available below.
The Ahtisaari Symposium series, established at the Wilson Center in 2010 in honor of Nobel Laureate and former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari, addresses vital issues concerning European and transatlantic security. This year’s session focused on “The Crisis of Euro-Atlantic Security” and included remarks by President Ahtisaari and a keynote by Ambassador Wolfgang Ischinger, Chairman of the Munich Security Conference and Distinguished Scholar at the Wilson Center, in addition to the expert panel on energy.
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Contributors
Jan H. Kalicki
Counselor for International Strategy, Chevron; Chairman, Eurasia Foundation
Maïté de Boncourt
Ariel Cohen
Robin Dunnigan
Brenda Shaffer
Wolfgang Ischinger
Chairman of the Munich Security Conference (MSC), former State Secretary (Deputy Foreign Minister) of Germany, formerly Germany's Ambassador to the U.S.
Global Europe Program
The Global Europe Program addresses vital issues affecting the European continent, U.S.-European relations, and Europe’s ties with the rest of the world. It does this through scholars-in-residence, seminars, policy study groups, media commentary, international conferences and publications. Activities cover a wide range of topics, from the role of NATO, the European Union and the OSCE to European energy security, trade disputes, challenges to democracy, and counter-terrorism. The program investigates European approaches to policy issues of importance to the United States, including globalization, digital transformation, climate, migration, global governance, and relations with Russia and Eurasia, China and the Indo-Pacific, the Middle East and Africa. Read more
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