The New Geopolitics of Natural Gas

By Agnia Grigas, Ph.D., Nonresident Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council and Board Member, LITGAS

This article reviews how, over the last decade, the transformation of the natural gas markets has ushered in a shift of global geopolitics by the changing relationships between natural gas exporting, importing, and transit states. The article draws from the author’s book of the same title and explores how this energy revolution was driven by the shale boom, the rise of the liquefied natural gas trade, the rise in interconnective gas infrastructure, and growing global demand for natural gas as a cleaner fossil fuel.