Vol. 3 No. 003 (2018): Issue 003

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Issue 3 of Istishraf for Future Studies (2018) includes the following studies and articles: “A Post-Oil Era is a Myth” (Mamdouh Salameh); “Natural Gas in the Arab Gulf States Rising Consumption and Major Future Challenges” (Naji Abi-Aad); “Regional Gas Integration in the Gulf Cooperation Council Difficult Past and Possible Futures” (Laurent A. Lambert); “Forecasting Prospects for Economic Diversification and Sustainability in the Gulf Economies, in Light of the Collapse in Oil Prices” (Khalid Rashed al-Khater); “The Eastern Mediterranean Natural Gas Discoveries Forecasting Geopolitical Opportunities and Challenges” (Marwan Kabalan); “The Energy Transition and Energy Security in Algeria Challenges on the 2030 Horizon” (Abdelmadjid Attar); “Energy Diversification Strategies in Future Shale Gas Exploitation in Algeria as a Model” (Chaker Drif); “Predicting the Future of the Energy Transition in the Arab World Case Study of the Moroccan Model” (Rachid El-Bazzim); “Forecasting and Energy Governance for the Swiss Energy Transition on the 2050 Horizon Some Useful Lessons for the Arabs” (Kacem Hadjadj); “'Internet of Things, IoT' and the Future of Energy Opportunities and Challenges” (El Sayed Yousef); “Future Energy without Oil and Fossil Fuel” (John Lowry); “Solar and Wind Energy Present and Future Energy Prospects in the Middle East and North Africa” (Sabry Shaaban); “The Electric Car: A Future Energy Alternative?” (Pierre Bonnaure); “resources Energetic: Shortage or overabundance ?” (Vidalenc Éric); “Tomorrow's Energy Prices:An Analysis of System, Actors and Shaping Factors” (Jean-Marie Chevalier); “Challenges of Energy Discoveries in the Eastern Mediterranean” (Ahmed Qasem Hussein); “Dissonance of Oil and Democracy A Review of Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil” (Abdellatif El Moutadayene); “Fossil Energy Futures” (Thowaiba Omer); “Challenges for the World Powers from the Perspective of the Economic Geography of Energy” (Brahim El Morchid); “The Furture of Oil Prices” (Osama Noujoum); “Towards a New Agenda in International Political Economy” (Noufel Ghiffi); “Energy Wars in the Twenty-First Century” (Yassine Yahyaoui); “Predicting the Challenges of the Energy Transition” (Nabil Hussein); “Challenges of the Collapse in Oil Prices” (Nerouz Satik); “What Forces are Driving the Future of Energy?” (Editorial Board).

Published: 2018-07-01

Studies

  • A Post-Oil Era is a Myth

    Author: Mamdouh Salameh (Author)
    9-26

    The often quoted statement attributed to the former Saudi oil minister Sheikh Ahmad Zaki Yamani that "the Stone Age came to an end not for lack of stone and the Oil Age will end long before we...

  • Natural Gas in the Arab Gulf States Rising Consumption and Major Future Challenges

    Author: Naji Abi-Aad (Author)
    27-39

    Lately, the GCC states have increased their share on the world gas market and begun to play a growing role in the consumption and importation of gas. At the same time, as enormous quantities of...

  • Regional Gas Integration in the Gulf Cooperation Council Difficult Past and Possible Futures

    Author: Laurent A. Lambert, جوردان لي (Author)
    40-51

    This paper reviews the dynamics of regional gas integration among the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council since the launch of the Dolphin Energy project in 1999 and proposes scenarii for...

  • Forecasting Prospects for Economic Diversification and Sustainability in the Gulf Economies, in Light of the Collapse in Oil Prices

    Author: Khalid Rashed al-Khater (Author)
    52-72

    The economic conditions of the past few years, which have been marked by a collapse in oil prices, have given renewed impetus to questions on departing from the rentier economy and embarking on...

  • The Eastern Mediterranean Natural Gas Discoveries Forecasting Geopolitical Opportunities and Challenges

    Author: Marwan Kabalan (Author)
    73-109

    With gas assuming a prominent place among energy sources and with the increasing reliance upon it for environmental and economic cost considerations, the importance of the Eastern Mediterranean...

  • The Energy Transition and Energy Security in Algeria Challenges on the 2030 Horizon

    Author: Abdelmadjid Attar (Author)
    110-125

    Algeria is a country with relatively important conventional fossil-fuel energy resources which have given birth to a world-ranking oil and gas industry and enabled a supply of energy that has...

  • Energy Diversification Strategies in Future Shale Gas Exploitation in Algeria as a Model

    Author: Chaker Drif (Author)
    126-153

    This study examines the impact of the shale gas revolution in countries that have significant reserves of this energy resource. Algeria is one of the most important regions in the world having...

  • Predicting the Future of the Energy Transition in the Arab World Case Study of the Moroccan Model

    Author: Rachid El-Bazzim (Author)
    154-173

    An energy transition involves modifying the energy mix by incorporating renewable energy resources. Their emergence implies a legal transition. A re-adaptation of the behavior of each individual...

  • Forecasting and Energy Governance for the Swiss Energy Transition on the 2050 Horizon Some Useful Lessons for the Arabs

    Author: Kacem Hadjadj (Author)
    174-198

    Most of the world's countries are stalling in the adoption of a future national strategy for an energy transition. Some states, however, have made progress to be emulated. On May 21, 2017, for...

  • 'Internet of Things, IoT' and the Future of Energy Opportunities and Challenges

    Author: El Sayed Yousef (Author)
    199-215

    Information and Communications Technology was for long seen as a consumer of energy, but recently it has demonstrated its ability to make a positive contribution to the energy field in various...

Translations

  • Future Energy without Oil and Fossil Fuel

    Author: John Lowry (Author)
    219-232

    Problems caused by global warming due to carbon dioxide released from combusting fossil fuels are now generally accepted. Fossil fuels are a finite resource that will start to run out during...

  • Solar and Wind Energy Present and Future Energy Prospects in the Middle East and North Africa

    Author: Sabry Shaaban, صبري شعبان (Author)
    233-249

    The countries of the Middle East possess an enormous potential for the development of renewable energy resources. This region of the globe captures a plentiful amount of direct sunshine, which...

  • The Electric Car: A Future Energy Alternative?

    Author: Pierre Bonnaure (Author)
    250-259

    In July 2017, France presented its future climate plan which is based on ceasing the use of coal to produce electricity by 2022, reducing the country's nuclear usage by one third, banning all...

  • resources Energetic: Shortage or overabundance ?

    Author: Vidalenc Éric, إيريك فيدالون (Author)
    261-276

    hydrocarbons in decrease imminent an predicted experts many Whereas: Abstract fallen has oil of cost the, highs record reaching prices and decade the of end the before For. disappeared almost...

  • Tomorrow's Energy Prices:An Analysis of System, Actors and Shaping Factors

    Author: Jean-Marie Chevalier (Author)
    277-292

    In light of the emergence of non-conventional sources of energy, new technologies as well as geopolitical fluctuations, energy price forecasts have been revised with all what it means in terms...

Book Reviews

  • Challenges of Energy Discoveries in the Eastern Mediterranean

    Author: Ahmed Qasem Hussein (Author)
    295-303

    A review of East Mediterranean Petroleum: Geopolitical Dimensions

  • Dissonance of Oil and Democracy A Review of Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil

    Author: Abdellatif El Moutadayene (Author)
    304-309

    Timothy Mitchell Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil (New York: Verso, 2011), 278 p.

  • Fossil Energy Futures

    Author: Thowaiba Omer (Author)
    310-315

    Book Review of Avoiding Carbon Apocalypse through Alternative Energy:Life after Fossil Fuels

  • Challenges for the World Powers from the Perspective of the Economic Geography of Energy

    Author: Brahim El Morchid (Author)
    316-320

    A Review of Energy: Resources, Technologies and Power Issues (Paris: Armand Colin, 2017), 224 p.

  • The Furture of Oil Prices

    Author: Osama Noujoum (Author)
    321-327

    The Furture of Oil Prices A review of The Price of Oil (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2015), 255 p.

  • Towards a New Agenda in International Political Economy

    Author: Noufel Ghiffi (Author)
    328-332

    Towards a New Agenda in International Political Economy (Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), 264 p.

  • Energy Wars in the Twenty-First Century

    Author: Yassine Yahyaoui (Author)
    333-336

    Energy Wars in the Twenty-First Century A review of The New Wars of Energy (Paris: Eyrolles, 2017)

  • Predicting the Challenges of the Energy Transition

    Author: Nabil Hussein (Author)
    337-342

    Predicting the Challenges of the Energy Transition A review of The Great Transition: Shifting from Fossil Fuels to Solar and Wind Energy

  • Challenges of the Collapse in Oil Prices

    Author: Nerouz Satik (Author)
    343-347

    Challenges of the Collapse in Oil Prices A review of Causes of the Steep Fall in Crude Oil Prices: Over-Production or I nternational Politics?