NS4967: Energy Security and Geopolitics - NPS Online
Energy Security and Geopolitics
Course #NS4967
Est.imated Completion Time: 3 months
POC: NPS Online Support
Overview
This course addresses broad themes and debates in energy security at an advanced level. Particular emphasis is on the history, economics and politics of energy and their implications for the energy security policy options the U.S. faces today. While the course looks at energy issues from a U.S. national security perspective, regional energy security issues around the world are examined to provide prospective on the policy differences the U.S. is encountering at the international level and will face in the future. This course is offered DL. Prerequisites: None.
Included in degrees & certificates
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Learning Outcomes
- Describe core energy security concepts, actors, and institutions
- Access, manipulate, and visually display energy data
- Identify and evaluate threats to consumer and producer states’ energy security
- Produce policy recommendations aimed at mitigating energy security threats
- Apply energy security concepts, theories, and historical analyses to contemporary issues in energy geopolitics
- Employ critical reading and analytic skills
- Communicate key findings in written and verbal formats

Academic Calendar
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06 Jun 2023
Spring quarter pre-graduation awards ceremony
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09 Jun 2023
Spring quarter last day of classes
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13 Jun 2023
Spring quarter final examinations begin