Energy Transitions in the Middle East: Challenges and Opportunities

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How do Middle East energy transitions fit into international energy markets In this book, energy analysts, geopolitical experts and specialists of political economy examine the new energy potential in the Middle East. The particular focus surrounds how the regions access to finance, combined with the new global regulations and considerations of economic development, shape the regions energy transitions overall. The Middle East is revealed to be a key site of new energy production, sharing and transmission as well as technology innovation. At the same time, the authors examine the variables that determine the success in each country and energy source, including the advantages that hydrocarbon producers will have in renewables and transition fuels, and the risk that these might slow down the energy transition overall. In doing so, the book situates the energy transition in the Middle East in a broader context of economic development, financing models, and regulations, and explains how this context interacts with the development of new energy sources. Energy Transitions in the Middle East is an account of the challenges Middle Eastern states will face in navigating the global energy transition, as well as their key areas of opportunity.

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Katherine Wolff is Graduate Research Fellow with the Economics and Energy Program at the Middle East Institute, USA. She studies at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), USA where she focuses on Middle East security and energy. Previously she was Associate Director for the Atlantic Council's Middle East Security Initiative. Karen E. Young is Senior Fellow and Founding Director of the Program on Economics and Energy at the Middle East Institute, USA.Previously she was visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, USA. She is the author of The Economic Statecraft of the Gulf Arab States (2023) and The Political Economy of Energy, Finance and Security in the United Arab Emirates (2014) and her analysis has appeared in Bloomberg Opinion, Foreign Policy Magazine, The Financial Times, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post.