چکیده:
lthough tremendous progresses have been made in terms of meeting the needs in all walks of life, the question of "ensuring energy security" remains a top priority for all states across the globe, including the super powers particularly the United States, which continues its endeavors to form a hegemonic world order after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The emergence of growing economic powers in the world has triggered further the necessity of having such a strategic vision concerning energy security. At the same time, the Russian Federation, as the main part of the disintegrated Soviet Union and while enjoying huge reserves of oil and gas, keeps trying to play a major role in energy market at regional and global levels. Under such circumstances, the Iranian oil and gas reserves is being considered as a remarkable source for securing energy in the world. The active presence of the United States in the Persian Gulf region, particularly in Iraq and Afghanistan, has escalated the importance of Iran in ensuring energy supply in this strategic region. In this essay, the author considers the impacts of the political and security developments in post- bipolar system era on therole of Iran in energy supply and energy security.
خلاصه ماشینی:
Iran's Role in Energy Security at Regional and Global Levels Elaheh Koolaee∗ Abstract lthough tremendous progresses have been made in terms of meeting the needs in all walks of life, the question of "ensuring energy security" remains a top priority for all states across the globe, including the super powers particularly the United States, which continues its endeavors to form a hegemonic world order after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Keywords: Energy Security, Iran, Middle East, Persian Gulf, America, Russia, and Caspian Sea. 1- Introduction The decision of the British Marine Forces Command prior to the First World War to replace coal-fed engines with oil- fed engines was in fact the start of the interrelatedness between security and petroleum.
Energy plays a crucial role in the relationship of Russia with Europe, USA with Venezuela; Persian Gulf with the East Asia, refinery considerations such as Katrina Hurricane, geopolitical issues such as Iranian case in the UN Security Council, as well as terrorism has increased the sensitivity of the global market towards the price and supply of energy.
It is impossible to consider thoroughly energy security without referring to certain concerns, which exist in this area, such as: terrorist attacks, vulnerability of infrastructures, the need to reduce the level of threats to nuclear fuel trade, dependency of the US and Europe to import natural gas, growing import of energy resources by developing countries, particularly China and India, as well as climate change and the confrontation between the North and South.