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The Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) has the pleasure of inviting you to a lecture by the 2013 Stuland Research Award Winner, Indra Øverland:

 Petroleum Geopolitics

Do resource scarcity and energy security concerns pit the great powers against each other in a global race for the remaining petroleum resources? In the Stuland Research Award Lecture, Indra Øverland, will look into the relationship between energy resources, geography, war and international politics. He will clarify the concept of geopolitics and lay out some arguments on how competition over oil and gas plays out in a historical and contemporary perspective. The focus will be on the relationships between the world’s great powers, and the lecture will touch on geopolitical hotspots such as the Arctic, the Caspian, the South China Sea and the Arab-Persian Gulf.

 Indra Øverland is the Head of NUPI’s Energy Programme. He came to NUPI in 1999, upon completing his PhD at the Scott Polar Research Institute at the University of Cambridge. He has previously been awarded the Toby Jackman Prize for best PhD dissertation at St. Edmund’s College (University of Cambridge) and the Marcel Cadieux Prize for best article in The International Journal
 (Canada). He has published extensively during the past five years, largely on the basis of the RussCasp research project financed by the Petrosam Programme of the Research Council of Norway.

The other sharing winner, Elana Wilson Rowe
, has just given birth to twins, and so is otherwise occupied.

Program 16:00–17:00

Lecture by Indra Øverland

Q&A