Strategic Analysis

Most of the countries in West Asia have expressed an interest in developing nuclear energy. For them their growing demand of electricity owing to the increasing population, growing industries, their eternal reliance on the desalinated water and environmental protection are the major drivers of their decision to produce nuclear energy. Importantly, they would like to use nuclear energy for domestic consumption and supply oil and gas to earn more revenues.

• Prasanta Kumar Pradhan
• November 2010 |
• Strategic Analysis
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• Alok Rashmi Mukhopadhyay
• November 2010 |
• Strategic Analysis
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The article analyses international politics surrounding the Iranian nuclear crisis, and its implications for stakeholders such as the United States and its western allies as well as for emerging market countries including India, China, and Turkey which are especially interested in Iran's energy resources. Given the existence of multiplicity of interests of these countries, often conflicting, the article analyses three possible scenarios of how the Iranian nuclear crisis is likely to be addressed.

• Atul Aneja
• November 2010 |
• Strategic Analysis
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• P. K. Gautam
• November 2010 |
• Strategic Analysis
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Energy ties between India and Australia are centuries old and can be traced back to the days of East India Company of the British–Indian era. From the first commercial export in the form of a shipment of coal to India from Australia in 1797, energy cooperation has come a long way. For instance, apart from making unswerving attempts to get Australian yellowcake, attempts have been made by India to ensure greater supply of coal and natural gas.

• Rahul Mishra
• November 2010 |
• Strategic Analysis
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• Saurabh
• November 2010 |
• Strategic Analysis
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Let's face the facts: we are not going to regulate our way out of either climate change, or a peaking of fossil fuels. Even if we could imagine that individuals and nations were capable of accepting significant reductions in their lifestyle for long-term self-interest or the interests of their grandchildren, no amount of increased efficiency of those already using energy is going to make up for the Other Three Billion (O3B) citizens of the world moving to developed lifestyles and their accompanying energy demand.

• Peter Garretson
• November 2010 |
• Strategic Analysis
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• Pankaj K Jha
• November 2010 |
• Strategic Analysis
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Nuclear energy is undergoing a global renaissance. While nuclear energy has been contributing between 14 and 16 per cent of the total electricity in the world in recent years, most of the countries that are operating nuclear power reactors are expanding and/or reviving their nuclear energy development programmes, including countries such as the US and the UK. At the same time, several new countries and regions, many of which are rich in other energy resources, are also opting for nuclear energy.

• Rajiv Nayan
• November 2010 |
• Strategic Analysis
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First Forum Press, Boulder, CO, 2009, pp. 187, $59.00, ISBN 978-1-935049-05-0

• Avinash Godbole
• November 2010 |
• Strategic Analysis
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