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Home page  About CSIS Programs Energy and National Security Completed Projects
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Completed Projects
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Caspian Energy Project
Foreign investor development of oil production in the Caspian Sea cannot proceed unless and until the means for moving this oil to markets are in place. Final route selection will reflect political considerations as much as economic justification. Foreign governments and private sectors alike are following the pipeline route selection negotiations with great interest. For interested parties to be able to make informed judgments, a clear understanding of all the issues on the table is essential. Unfortunately, the reliability of available information does not always match its abundance. Read more
China Energy Future
The CSIS China Energy Future Project provides a comprehensive analysis of how China is trying and will continue to try to meet its ever-growing energy needs. China’s expanding economy requires increasing oil volumes. With tighter world oil production and higher oil prices, China appears in the world oil market as a key player with the potential to reorganize the market through new alliances and the setting of new rules. Read more
Nuclear Regulatory Process Review In 1998-1999, the CSIS Energy Program conducted a project on Nuclear Regulatory has worked with members of the nuclear community to review the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC) regulatory process for commercial nuclear reactors and its internal efforts to improve this process. The conclusions and recommendations of this project are now available in the final report: Regulatory Process for Nuclear Power Reactors: A Review. The Executive Summary is now available
Global Nuclear Materials Management project The future of nuclear energy, materials, and weapons poses an urgent challenge to policymakers. To address this concern, the CSIS Energy Program coordinated the Global Nuclear Materials Management project. Phase I was an international conference chaired by Sam Nunn, former Senator and chair of the CSIS Board of Trustees held on December 4, 1998. The conference featured national and international experts who concluded that the current policies are inadequate for solving the new international security challenges.
In response to this conclusion, Phase II of Global Nuclear Materials Management created recommendations for policymakers. These findings and recommendations were released publicly at a one-day international policy forum on July 22, 1999. The findings of this phase were published in the report, “Managing the Global Nuclear Materials Threat.”
Strategic Energy Initiative At the end of 2000, the CSIS Energy Program published a 3-volume report entitled, “Geopolitics of Energy to the 21st Century,” which looked at emerging challenges to global energy markets and, more importantly, offered both government and business leaders the opportunity to make anticipatory, rather than reactive, decisions to prepare for the emerging challenges facing global energy markets. This report was the outcome of a 2-year project organized by the Energy Program and co-chaired by former Senator Sam Nunn and Dr. James Schlesinger, former Secretary of Energy. The report made key recommendations for the coming two decades, many of which are still valid today:
- The United States must protect world energy supplies with greater burden sharing by allies;
- Governments and the private sector must work together to protect energy infrastructure against sabotage or terrorist attack;
- Economically and environmentally sound technologies must be made available to help developing countries meet increasing energy demands.
National Petroleum Council Study, Geopolitics and Policy
Following an October 2005 request by Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman for a comprehensive study on the ability of oil and gas production to keep pace with growing demand, the CSIS Energy and National Security Program worked with the National Petroluem Council to produce a report entitled, "Hard Truths." The Energy and National Security Program was responsible for leading the section studying the impacts of geopolitics and policy on future energy trends. Released in August 2007, more information on the report can be found here.
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