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2008 (continued)

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April 28, 2008

PDP Co-Director Carter Participates in Harvard Oil Shockwave Simulation

Press Release

PDP Co-Director Carter participates in a high-profile crisis simulation examining the economic and security implications of America’s dependency on oil.

Spring 2008

Free: College Curriculum Package Simulates Oil Crisis

Announcement

By Eric Rosenbach, Executive Director for Research, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

Securing America's Future Energy (SAFE), in collaboration with the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School, has created a free college curriculum box set that includes all of the materials needed to conduct an energy crisis simulation in your classroom. The exercise is based on Oil ShockWave™, SAFE's one-of-a-kind oil crisis simulation, which has featured participants such as Defense Secretary Robert Gates, former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Dan Yergin and former director of the CIA R. James Woolsey.

2007

July 15, 2007

Old Oil Fears Don't Match 2007 Reality: U.S. Vulnerability, Economic Threat are Largely Overstated

Op-Ed, San Francisco Chronicle

By Philip Auerswald, Associate, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program

2007

Global Perspectives on Oil and Security

Book

This book was born out of a seminar organized by the Centre for Foreign Policy Studies in January 2006, where members of the Department of Political Science at Dalhousie University presented papers on topics related to oil and security.

January 23, 2007

Calling an End to Oil Alarmism

Op-Ed, Boston Globe

By Philip Auerswald, Associate, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program

2006

November 2006

Will the Oil Boom Solve the Middle East Unemployment Crisis

Policy Brief

During the recent oil boom the MENA region has seen job creation accelerate' given favorable economic prospects going forward, the region could see unemployment decline to nearly 7 percent by 2010

T. Jean

October 27, 2006

"China’s Automobile Growth and Implications for World Oil Markets"

Presentation

By Kelly Sims Gallagher, Senior Associate, Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group

The Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group (ETIP) seeks to combat global warming and climate change by promoting strategies for efficient energy technologies in China, India, and the United States, such as advanced coal technologies, carbon capture and storage (CCS), and advanced vehicle technologies.

2006

"Reducing China's Thirst for Foreign Oil: Moving Towards a Less Oil-Dependent Road Transport System"

Journal Article, China Environment Series, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, issue 8

By Hongyan He Oliver, Former Research Fellow, Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group, 2004-2009

China’s oil demand is likely to continue increasing in the next two decades, mainly driven by its rapidly growing vehicle fleet, particularly, personal cars.

May 2006

China Shifts Gears: Automakers, Oil, Pollution, and Development

Book

By Kelly Sims Gallagher, Senior Associate, Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group

In China Shifts Gears, Kelly Sims Gallagher identifies an unprecedented opportunity for China to "shift gears" and avoid the usual problems associated with the automobile industry while spurring economic development.

April 13, 2006

"Tame Oil's Wild Price Ride with a Tax"

Op-Ed, Christian Science Monitor

By Henry Lee, Director, Environment and Natural Resources Program

Volatile oil prices keep energy companies from investing in alternatives. With the onslaught of high oil prices, war in the Middle East, an increasingly bellicose Iran, and the aftermath of hurricane Katrina, energy security has reemerged as a major public policy priority.

International Security

The Summer 2009 issue of the quarterly journal International Security is now available. It includes articles by Matthew Fuhrmann, Elizabeth Stanley, Daniel Lake, Christopher Layne, and more.

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Report

New Report from Harvard Kennedy School Researchers Calls for Changes to Biofuels Incentives

Despite pressure from biofuel critics, governments should avoid simplistic and precipitous changes in course such as rollback or moratoria on existing biofuels mandates or incentives, according to a new report from three Harvard Kennedy School researchers. Instead, the researchers urge governments to initiate an orderly, innovation-enhancing transition towards incentives targeted on multi-dimensional goals for biofuels development.

Op-Ed

Running on Empty and Spreading the Blame

Who is to blame for $4.00 gasoline?

Article

The Truth about Food

"...it is a mistake to see high prices as a proxy for actual hunger. Most of the world's hungry citizens do not get their food from the world market, and most who rely on the world market are not poor or vulnerable to hunger."

Journal Article

Hedging Against Uncertainty: US Strategy in an Interdependent World

Energy is important, but energy independence is a dangerous myth. The U.S. National Petroleum Council recently observed: "There can be no U.S. energy security without global energy security." Oil flows in a world market and events anywhere affect the price of oil everywhere. There is no escaping these oil price shocks. Even if the United States were to substantially reduce its own oil consumption, there would be no immunity from the effects of high world oil prices that would determine domestic energy prices and ripple through the world economy. Geology and politics make the world deeply interdependent and policy should be crafted to promote and secure energy interdependence. Real energy security comes from robust energy systems with diversity and flexibility, not through isolation and energy autarky.