Securitatea energetică a NATO: provocări post-Lisabona
NATO’S ENERGY SECURITY: POST-LISBON CHALLENGES

Summary/Abstract: Within an extended approach on national security - where the energy turns out to be an essential topic - NATO’s relevance for the energy security domain is becoming controversial and caught between two debates – a political one, centred on the Alliance’s role in countering the policies of some states in this field, and a military one, focused on critical infrastructures protection. On the other hand, NATO’s strategic and institutional transformation – the political-military consultations and intelligence sharing network, crisis management instruments, international and regional cooperation – represent a few substantiations converging towards supporting NATO’s relevance for the energy security domain. Meanwhile, the recent turmoil from Middle East and Northern Africa, as well as the development of Stuxnet-like applications – able to sabotage industrial systems - are emphasizing the NATO’s comparative advantages within the network of international organisations sharing concerns regarding energy security domain

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