%0 Journal Article
%T NATO¡¯s Complimentary Role in Energy Security and Turkey¡¯s Potential Contributions at the New Energy Geopolitics
%A Emre £¿£¿eri
%A A.O£¿uz Dilek
%J Journal of Gazi Academic View
%D 2012
%I Gazi University
%X Energy-related issues gained a prominent place within the NATO¡¯s new strategic concept declaredduring the Lisbon Summit (November 20, 2010). This final strategic concept is to address twonew sources of threat within the new energy geopolitics - ¡®resource nationalism¡¯ and ¡®energy terrorism¡¯ -which deeply concern those NATO members that require imported energy resources to meet their soaringdomestic demand. Lisbon Summit to remove, if not alleviate, these security challenges tasked NATOwith a set of specific roles. As a melting pot of the said two energy related risks, Turkey with its pledgeto become the fourth energy artery of Europe will likely serve as a litmus test for NATO¡¯s new energyrole. To what extent NATO will contribute to Turkey¡¯s energy security will depend on the degree to whichAnkara will find conformity/coherence in between Turkey¡¯s own energy security reliance on Russia andNATO¡¯s possible demands sourcing from the Alliance¡¯s new role conception (based around energy). Theprospect of such conformity/coherence matters for both the future terms of relations between the Allianceand Turkey and the relevance of NATO as a security providing organization within the upcomingdecades. Especially, in a period of time when the Georgian War of 2008 still haunts the Wider BlackSea Region meanwhile the Arab ¡®Spring¡¯ further eclipses already weak stability within the Middle East.
%K NATO
%K New Strategic Concept
%K Energy Security
%K Turkey
%U http://www.ataum.gazi.edu.tr/e107_files/sayi10/14-emre-iseri.pdf