ABSTRACT
Societies and economies that are open to the rest of the world have demolished the barriers of the inward-looking societies of the past and allowed the world to continue along the path of progress. However, this increasingly interconnected world is also more vulnerable. Security is identified more and more as a highly valuable – though vulnerable – commodity. At the same time, governments and citizens find it difficult to perceive that they enjoy a reasonable level of security in the presence of a significant degree of energy insecurity.
