Pathways to energy security

Experts dissect India's energy sector in an evolving global order

- AMITABHA BHATTACHARYA

GEOPOLITICS IS A term so widely used, and so vaguely understood, that a clearer definition is called for, especially when its impact on our 'energy transition and energy security' is sought to be thoroughly discussed. Energy being a key driver of a nation’s growth and prosperity, capturing its transition problems and contextualising this crucial phase within our broad security interests should attract the attention of thinking individuals and institutional stakeholders.

This book, edited by RN Prasher, a civil servant with a deep expertise in the subject, is a collection of essays contributed by a select group of policymakers and key practitioners.

The preface sets the tone of the book. Geopolitics is likened to “a complex global game where nations are like chess pieces and continents are like squares”, characterised by strategy, continuous power dynamics, and extremely high stakes leading to some nations gaining global dominance while others losing it.