ABOUT THE BOOK
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The world is
entering an era with increased global demand for energy, price volatility, and
rising concerns about environmental burdens and the global impact of climate
change. Directly or indirectly, these factors have given rise to related
concerns such as deregulation and geopolitical uncertainties. Moreover, the
challenges related to the energy issue go beyond scientific or technological
aspects and extend to access to resources, regional conflicts, pricing and
energy infrastructure management.
For Asian
countries, the challenge is more critical. Rapid and sustained
economic development has placed these countries at the epicentre of growth in
global energy demand, which has changed direction from the West to the East,
thereby altering the geopolitics of global energy. Climate and
environmental concerns are driving technological innovations, causing a sea
change in the kind and manner in which energy is used. In turn, these changes
have thrown up new energy policy and security challenges for Asian
governments. Conversely, the choices and policies that have, and will be,
adopted by the Asian countries will have far-reaching implications for the
world.
The focus of
Asian Strategic Review 2017 is on tracing the contours of the current energy
markets, the policies adopted by some of the key nations in their quest to
enhance their energy security, and the challenges that are likely to come up in
the future.
ABOUT Author
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Jayant Prasad is Director General, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi. He was
India’s Ambassador to Afghanistan, Algeria, Nepal, and the UN Conference on
Disarmament, Geneva. At headquarters, in the Ministry of External Affairs, he
served as Special Secretary (Public Diplomacy), and Head of the Americas and
the Multilateral Economic Relations Divisions. He was Rapporteur of the U.N.
Commission on Human Rights, Geneva (1986-87), Fellow at the Weatherhead Center
for International Affairs, Harvard University (1998-99), member of U.N.
Secretary-General’s Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters (2005-07), and
Visiting Scholar, Center for the Advanced Study of India, University of
Pennsylvania (2014-15). Before his 37-year public service career, he was
lecturer in history, St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi, after
completing his studies at Modern School, St. Stephen’s College, and Jawarharlal
Nehru University.
Shebonti Ray Dadwal is a Senior
Fellow with the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA), heading the
Non-Traditional Security Centre at the Institute. Prior to joining IDSA, she
served as Deputy Secretary at the National Security Council Secretariat and was
Senior Editor with The Financial Express. She is a member of the CSCAP Study
Group on Energy Security as well as member of the Core Group on Myanmar of the MEA’s
Indian Council of World Affairs (ICWA).
In April 2009,
she was awarded a Chevening Fellowship by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office
of the UK on completion of a course in Economics of Energy at the Institute for
Energy Research and Policy, University of Birmingham, UK. She is also a member
of the Editorial Board of IDSA’s flagship journal, Strategic Analysis.
Her research
focus is on Energy Security and she has recently published a monograph on The
Geopolitics of America’s Energy Independence: Implications for China, India and
the Global Energy Market. She has written two books. The first, Rethinking
Energy Security in India was published in 2002, and this is her second book.
She is also the co-editor of Non-Traditional Security Challenges in Asia: Approaches
and Responses, published by Routledge in 2015, and has co-authored the IDSA
Report on Security Implications of Climate Change for India (2009), apart from
writing several peer-reviewed articles and papers focusing on Energy Security.