Geopolitics
The Strait of Catastrophe: How Western Energy Hegemony Created History's Greatest Crisis
The Executive Director of the International Energy Agency, Fatih Birol, has declared the current Middle East conflict the 'largest energy security threat in history,' with a staggering loss of 13 million barrels per day of oil and severe damage to over eighty critical energy facilities, potentially crippling the global economy for years. This unprecedented crisis exposes the catastrophic failure of a Western-dominated global energy architecture that holds the world hostage to narrow chokepoints, disproportionately devastating the emerging economies of the Global South and proving the urgent need for a new, multipolar and sovereign energy order.
