2023/2024
Энергия сквозь века
Статус:
Майнор
Кто читает:
Департамент международных отношений
Где читается:
Факультет мировой экономики и мировой политики
Когда читается:
1, 2 модуль
Охват аудитории:
для всех кампусов НИУ ВШЭ
Преподаватели:
Локтионов Вадим Ильич
Язык:
английский
Кредиты:
5
Контактные часы:
60
Course Syllabus
Abstract
First uses of coal, oil and natural gas. Coal, the steam engine and the industrial revolution. Coal in the age of empires: Germany, Britain, and Russia. The emergence of the oil industry. First oil companies. John D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil. Internal combustion engine and oil as a new energy source. Winston Churchill, the Royal Navy and Persian oil. The emerging structure of the oil industry: state-business relations. Oil in the First World War. Main centers of oil production: the Middle East, Caucasus, Southern US, South-East Asia and Romania. Oil in the Second World War. Romanian Oil and German military planning. The impact of oil deficit on German, Italian and Japanese military problems. Oil in the South East Asia, the US oil embargo and Pearl Harbor. The role of oil in Soviet military efforts. Two emerging models of managing the oil industry: command planning and market-driven. The role of international oil companies (IOCs) and national oil companies (NOCs). OPEC, OAPEC and the oil price shocks of the 1960s and the 1970s. The US-Saudi Arabia and the emergence of the petrodollar system. The evolution of the Soviet oil and gas industry. The Soviet oil and gas: emerging relations with Europe and the United States. Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and its impact on the energy sector. Oil market dynamics in the 1980s-1990s. Perestroika, market reforms and the transformation of the post-Soviet oil and gas sector.
Learning Objectives
- To understand the historic role of energy in shaping political, economic and military objectives of individual countries;
- To develop an understanding of the historical aspects of international energy relations and of key events that shaped the evolution of the international energy industry and of the global energy order.
- To develop an understanding of the way oil, gas, coal and power markets emerged and developed
- To learn about the geography of traditional energy producing and consuming centers and its impact on international energy relations.
- To understand basics of energy economics
Expected Learning Outcomes
- Analyzes the relationship between domestic and foreign policy components in large developing countries.
- Analyzes the relationship between domestic and foreign policy components in oil-producing developing countries.
- Analyzes the relationship between domestic and foreign policy components on the example of developed countries.
- Explains the key role of energy in the global economy.
- Explains the role of coal in the rise of empires in the 19th century.
- Describes the development of the oil industry in the 19th century.
- Explains the military-strategic importance of oil.
- Analyzes the role of war in the introduction of internal combustion engines.
- Describes political and military risks for the oil industry.
- Describes the process of establishing two models of energy management.
- Analyzes the features of political systems in their interaction with energy policy.
- Assesses the historical aspects of Russia's energy policy formation.
- Examines previous models of the global energy order.
Course Contents
- 1. Fundamentals of Energy Economics
- 2. The Concept of Energy Security
- 3. Resilience of Energy Systems
- 4. Energy Demand. Energy Supply
- 5. Sustainable Energy: Towards to Sustainable Future
- 6. The History of Energy Transitions: Coal and the First Energy Transition
- 7. The History of Energy Transitions: the Rise of Oil
- 8. The History of Energy Transitions: Gas as the New Energy Leader
- 9. The History of Energy Transitions: on the Way to Renewable Energy
- 10. The Soviet Union in the Global Energy Markets
- 11. Russia and the Global Energy Order
- 12. World Energy Outlook
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Ближний Восток: нефть и политика : реферат. сб., , 2014
- Добыча: Всемирная история борьбы за нефть, деньги и власть, Ергин, Д., 2011
- Линник, Ю. Н., Нефть и газ: от поиска и разведки до переработки : монография / Ю. Н. Линник, В. Ю. Линник. — Москва : Русайнс, 2020. — 410 с. — ISBN 978-5-4365-6547-7. — URL: https://book.ru/book/940414 (дата обращения: 25.08.2023). — Текст : электронный.
- Нефть и уголь в энергетике царской России в международных сопоставлениях, Дьяконова, И. А., 1999
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Нефть новой России : ситуация, проблемы, перспективы, , 2007
- Нефть России : взгляд топ-менеджера, Алекперов, В. Ю., 2001
- Нефть страны Советов : проблемы истории нефтяной пром-сти СССР (1917-1991 гг.), , 2005