COMPETING PERSPECTIVES ON GLOBAL ENERGY: FROM WESTERN PA TO EASTERN EUROPE

This course provides professional school students in the fields of Business, Law, Engineering,Public Policy and other areas with a first-hand experience of the global impact of contemporary developments in the natural gas and other energy sectors. Participants will first witness the effect that Marcellus Shale has had in Western PA and then see how these developments affect US foreign policy and trade practices. After this, students will become familiar with a very different side of the global natural gas and energy equation by travelling to Europe, where they will explore the role that transit states play in global energy markets and efforts by these players to use their territory and energy alternatives to bargain with larger states at both ends of energy pipelines. The course ends in Kyiv for a different view of global and regional gas and energy markets. This course is open to undergraduate and non-PITT students. Coursework may count towards Russian and East European Studies certificate.