ENERGY GEOPOLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Abstract

We live in a time of tectonic changes in geopolitics and international relations. If during
the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, geopolitical laws were applied in the conquest for new
colonies, wars, conquests of new territories, occupations, strategic agreements between the
great powers, now in the twenty-first century the emphasis of geopolitics is on economics and
energy. Energy is the bloodstream of modern civilization.
Energy is increasingly shaping the international system, determining the great powers,
predicting possible alliances and outcomes of wars. Countries are still dependent on energy,
ie fossil fuels, oil and gas, and they are determining their power, independence and hierarchy
in international relations.
Energy and energy sources are increasingly taking the primacy of a geopolitical factor
in the international relations.
The pursuit of a successful energy geopolitics will be an imperative for the modern state
in the international environment, if it is to survive as an independent entity.