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This panel examines the evolving interplay between global energy transition, resource geopolitics, and great power relations in the Middle East, a region long positioned as the core of global fossil fuel supply and a central arena for major power competition.
Against the dual backdrop of accelerating global low-carbon transition and escalating regional geopolitical tensions, the long-standing fossil fuel-based geopolitical order in the Middle East is undergoing profound restructuring. Regional energy states are reorienting their national strategies to balance short-term hydrocarbon revenue stability with long-term decarbonization and industrial transformation goals, which in turn reshapes their diplomatic and economic engagement with external major powers.
This panel welcomes rigorous analyses across multiple dimensions: how energy transition rewrites the logic of resource geopolitics across the Gulf and the wider Middle East; how major powers including the United States, China, Russia, and European stakeholders recalibrate their energy cooperation, security deployment, and low-carbon technology strategies in the region; and how shifting energy interdependencies reshape regional security dynamics, maritime channel governance, and multilateral coordination frameworks. It also addresses the impacts of regional conflicts and energy supply disruptions on global market stability and great power strategic calculations.
By integrating theoretical innovation and empirical case studies, this panel aims to deepen scholarly understanding of new patterns of great power competition and cooperation in Middle East energy affairs, and illuminate the evolving trajectory of regional order amid the global energy transition.