Rise of the Non-Triad Energy Majors - National Oil Companies and National Oil Elites

12/03/2010 - 13:45

12 March 2010
13.45 - 15.00 hrs

Energy Programme Asia Lecture by Nana de Graaff, PhD candidate, Department of Political Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences – Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Chair & discussant: Dr. Mehdi Amineh

Venue: GSSS, Prins Hendrikkade 189-B, Room C, Amsterdam

The recent decade has witnessed the global expansion of state-owned energy companies from outside the traditional triad (US, EU, Japan). This development is widely perceived to increase the potential for geopolitical rivalry over resources and to pose a threat to neoliberal market mechanisms. Fears are that the state-owned companies act on political motives instead of commercial motives and hence pose a strategic threat. The question is, however, to what extent this is the case. This lecture will present a network analysis of the changing corporate relations of five major non-triad state-owned energy companies in the period 1997-2007 and an analysis of the oil elite networks of the actors in charge of the world’s major energy corporations. It will also pay attention to social network analysis as a promising research method.  

This lecture is organised within the Energy Programme Asia (EPA) Lecture Series 2010: Domestic and Geopolitical Challenges to Energy Security for China and the European Union

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Dr Mehdi P. Amineh
EPA Programme Director
International Institute for Asian Studies
T +31 20 525 4567
m.p.amineh@uva.nl