Advanced Training in Geopolitics & International Relations | Commodity Economics & Finance- Shifting Energy Dynamics and Geopolitical Implications
OCP Policy Center, Rabat.
This Course will be organized around four main aspects:
• The energy sector as a strategic sector;
• The key players within the international oil and gas industry;
• Analysis of some major current issues involving energy and geopolitics;
• Some key cross-current issues (oil prices, climate change, and the US-Middle East relationship).
Objectives :
• To give a good understanding of the relationship between energy (especially but not only oil and gas) and geopolitics;
• To make understand the impacts of energy on geopolitics and of geopolitics on energy. The emphasis will be put on recent and current issues in order for the audience to be able to assess these national, regional and international developments, which are underway, and to evaluate their present and future consequences.
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Francis Perrin
Francis Perrin is a Professor at Universities of Grenoble and Lyon and a Senior Research Fellow at IRIS, specialist on Energy issues. Francis Perrin has a PhD in energy economics from the Pierre-Mendès France University in Grenoble.