Lecture “Energy, Climate Change & Comprehensive Security in the EU-Russia-US relations” today at the Metropolitan University Prague

Today Professor Veli-Pekka Tynkkynen is giving a lecture “Energy, Climate Change & Comprehensive Security in the EU-Russia-US relations” at the Metropolitan University Prague, Czech Republic.

Energy security is typically understood as either security of supply (“EU perspective”) or security of demand (“Russian perspective”). The lecture will discuss future relations between the EU, Russia as well as the USA via the prisms of spatialities, geoeconomics and commodity chains of different energy sources in the EU – Russia energy constellation. Changing global climate is the contextual factor that compels to incorporate the perspective of comprehensive security into the traditional energy-security considerations, but it also opens avenues for mutually beneficial foreign relations. The lecture ponders possibilities to move from the asymmetric “energy as a weapon” perspective to a symmetric “energy as a tie“.

Structure of the lecture:

• Energy security perspectives in EU – Russia energy trade (EU, Russia, USA)
• Spatialities of energy and societal development
• Climate change and comprehensive security
• Promoting responsibilities along energy commodity chains via symmetric energy relations
• Certified flows of energy enhance mutually beneficial (energy) futures and foreign relations

European powers think they have more leverage than they actually do when it comes to countering Russia’s monopolistic tactics in the energy industry @VPTynkkynen said at a recent lecture. pic.twitter.com/dYhQIkuwLs

— ÚMV Praha (@IIR_Prague) 5 апреля 2019 г.

More information is available at the University’s website.