Instructor




    Prof.

    Javad Keypour


Javad Keypour is an early-stage researcher at the Law Department, School of Business and Governance, Tallinn University of Technology (Taltech). He has worked for the Iranian Vice Presidency for Science and Technology office for 5 years as an energy markets expert. He is also the chief editor of The Energy Diplomacy Journal, published in Iran. Javad gained his MA in 2019 in international relations and his MSc in chemical engineering in 2011. His major research focus is energy security, EU-Russia energy relations and EU energy law.


Course Description


This course looks at the global energy interactions from an interdisciplinary perspective mainly international relations. In other words, the energy dimension of international relations will be focused on. From this attitude, security studies, political science, and international political economics principles will be applied to scrutinize how energy raises conflicts or paves the way for international cooperation among different states. The idea will be somehow to find how international energy interactions work currently, and how they will change in the future.


Learning Objectives

The course aims to addresses the general role of energy in global interactions, the geopolitics of oil and gas, international energy organizations’ function, energy pricing, new and renewable energy resources’ role and impact on world energy issues, EU energy policy and relations and theoretical principles of the energy security concept.


Learning Outcomes

Students are expected to become able to explain fundamental concepts of world energy issues, map the major energy flows around the world, analyze the major energy player’s behaviour and multilateral relations between the US, Russia, the Middle East, EU as well as international organizations like OPEC, and to apply their learnings to describe the future of the world energy image in light of this course.


Course Curriculum


  • 1

    Curriculum

    • Syllabus Energy Security and International Relations

  • 2

    Lecture 1: Introduction, The oil and politics

    • 01

    • 02

    • 03

    • 04

    • Quiz 1

    • Presentation (Slides) - Week 1
  • 3

    Lecture 2: The correlation between oil price and political events in the world

    • Energy security 2-01

    • Energy Security 2-02

    • Energy security 2-03

    • Energy security 2-04

    • Quiz 2

    • Presentation (Slides) - Week 2
  • 4

    Lecture 3: The US foreign oil policy

    • 01

    • 02

    • 03

    • 04

    • Quiz 3

    • Presentation (Slides) - Week 3
  • 5

    Lecture 4: OPEC, Saudi Arabia external oil policy and Legal aspects of oil contracts

    • 4 OPEC 01

    • 4 OPEC 02

    • 4 OPEC 03

    • 4 OPEC 04

    • Quiz 4

    • Presentation (Slides) - Week 4
  • 6

    Lecture 5: Natural gas

    • 5-01

    • 5-02

    • 5-03

    • 5-04

    • Quiz 5

    • Presentation (Slides) - Week 5
  • 7

    Lecture 6: Renewables and nuclear power

    • 06 - 01

    • 06 - 02

    • 06 - 03

    • 06 - 04

    • Quiz 6

    • Presentation (Slides) - Week 6
  • 8

    Lecture 7: Oil and gas pricing

    • 7-01

    • 7-02

    • 7-03

    • 7-04

    • 7-05

    • Quiz 7

    • Presentation (Slides) - Week 7
  • 9

    Lecture 8: Energy security theoretical principles

    • 8-01

    • 8-02

    • 8-03

    • 8-04

    • 8-05

    • Quiz 8

    • Presentation (Slides) - Week 8
  • 10

    Complementary Materials - Additional Readings

    • aeo2019

    • bp-energy-outlook-2020

    • English-Summary-WEO 2020

    • WEO_2017_Executive_Summary_English_version

    • Key_World_Energy_Statistics_2020

    • WEO2017launchpresentationprint

    • bp-stats-review-2020-full-report

    • WOO_2020