David Ramin Jalilvand works with the Middle East and North Africa department of the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation in Berlin. He holds a PhD in Political Science from the Free University of Berlin, examining the role of the energy sector in the political economy of Iran. He earned an MSc in Global Politics from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a BA in Government Studies from Erfurt University. During his undergraduate studies, he spent one year at the Moscow State Institute for International Relations. He specializes in energy and international politics, especially in the Middle East.

Kirsten Westphal is Senior Associate at the German Institute for Politics and Security in Berlin (SWP). In the Global Issues Division, she works on international energy relations and energy security issues. Her expertise are in global energy issues and security of supply (oil and gas); renewables; international energy governance; non-conventional oil and gas; EU foreign energy relations with the USA, Russia, Caspian Region, MENA; and emerging powers Brazil, China, India, and South Africa.

Introduction

David Ramin Jalilvand and Kirsten Westphal

Chapter 1 - Regional trends after the dissolution of "old orders" in the Middle East and North Africa

Guido Steinberg and Isabelle Werenfels

Chapter 2 - The Price War, OPEC and the Future of the MENA Region

Giacomo Luciani

Chapter 3 - Global Gas and LNG markets: The role for MENA countries

Anne-Sophie Corbeau

Chapter 4 - Renewable Energy: a recent, but dynamic trend in the MENA region

Sybille Röhrkasten and Mohammed Qader

Chapter 5 - The energy-climate-water nexus in the MENA region and the need for an integrate approach

Thomas Fink and Manfred Fischedick

Chapter 6 - Oil and Resilience: Changing Energy Dynamics and the Smaller Gulf States

Laura El-Katiri

Chapter 7 - Iranian energy between Nuclear Deal and Oil Price Decline

David Ramin Jalilvand

Chapter 8 - Struggling with low oil prices: from bad to worse in crisis-torn Iraq?

Luay Al Khatteeb

Chapter 9 - In Dire Need of a New Social Contract: Saudi Arabia's Socioeconomic and Political Challenges

Sebastian Sons

Chapter 10 - The Eastern Mediterranean - an energy region in the making

Charles Ellinas

Chapter 11 - Cyprus: Energy Hopes and Political Troubles

Harry Tzimitras and Ayla Gurel

Chapter 12 - The impact of natural gas discoveries on Israeli politics, geopolitics and socioeconomic discourse

Elai Rettig

Chapter 13 - Jordan: Overcoming Energy Insecurity

Ayoub Abu-Dayyeh

Chapter 14 - Turkey: In Between Global Trends and Regional Politics

Ellen Scholl

Chapter 15 - Energy Politics in Egypt: A Quick Fix for Economic Problems

Stephan Roll and Mahmoud Ibrahim

Chapter 16 - Algeria: Global challenges, regional threats and missed opportunities

Gonzalo Escribano

Chapter 17 - Energy security, sustainability and development in Morocco

Georgeta Auktor

Chapter 18 - The energy-security nexus in MENA region - Appraising the role of the US, the EU, Russia and China

Kirsten Westphal

Conclusions and Outlook

David Ramin Jalilvand and Kirsten Westphal

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are in disarray, and shifts in the field of energy have the potential to drastically affect the course of political and economic developments in the region. Declining oil prices, skyrocketing domestic demand, the rise of unconventional oil and natural gas production in North America, as well as shifting patterns of global energy trade all put severe pressures on both producing and importing countries in the MENA region. Policy-makers are facing fundamental challenges in light of the duality of grand transformations in (geo)politics and energy. Changes in the field of energy require substantial political and economic reforms, affecting the very fabric of sociopolitical arrangements. At the same time, the MENA region's geopolitical volatility makes any such reforms extremely risky.
Including contributions by academics and analysts from both inside and outside the MENA region, this volume explores the changes in global and regional energy, the impact of changing international energy dynamics on politics and economies in the MENA region, and the challenges that will result.
This is essential reading for researchers, postgraduates, and professionals in Middle Eastern and North African politics, global energy governance and regionalism.