Energy Geopolitics & Statecraft

Energy Geopolitics & Statecraft

The Hormuz Shakedown: How Washington is Using Regional Disorder to Re-Engineer the Global Energy Order - EGS Brief 3/26

While the world braces for the immediate shock of $90 oil and a total Qatari LNG cutoff, a more profound transformation is underway, dismantling the old energy order for a new one.

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Mar 06, 2026
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Forget the global pandemic and the negative oil prices amid the Russia-Saudi price war of April 2020. Forget the first and second Gulf Wars, when a U.S.-led coalition invaded Iraq, the second largest oil producers among OPEC countries, with boots on the ground. Also, forget the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the devastating consequences for EU-Russia g…

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