Importanța majoră a resurselor energetice în actualul mediul internațional de securitate
The Major Importance of Energetic Resources in the Current International Security Environment

Summary/Abstract: In a world of globalization, threatened by terrorism, instability and geopolitical and geo-economic rivalries, one of the most relevant challenges for the international security environment is the energy security. The countries’ fundamental need for energy to power their economic growth and unequal access to the energetic resources affect the international relations. In a world of increasing interdependence, energy security will depend much on how countries manage their relations with one another, whether bilaterally or within multilateral frameworks. The global economy is still dependent on the oil and gas, as the most important energetic resources. Because the regions that detain the most important part of oil and gas reserves are characterized by deep political and economical instability, the energy competition represents one of the many reasons for the outbreak, perpetuation and intensification of conflicts and will dominate the 21st century geopolitics. The energy security reflects three dimensions: providing the alternative supply sources, identification of new energetic routes and making and maintaining secure the existent sources and transport ways. The 21st century tends to become and “economic war” century in which the energetic resources will be a security or insecurity element for the states or entitites that detain, control or use them.

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