Is Serbia Energy Secure?
Is Serbia Energy Secure?

Summary/Abstract: The reasons calling for an analysis of energy security in Serbia are several. First off, the survival and progress of any society are doubtlessly dependent on its access to energy, i.e. energy availability. Ever since the 1950s the question has no longer been if, but when the world will run out of fossil fuels.1 The 1973 oil shock placed the issue of energy security on the world policy agenda and this topic today ranks high among foreign policy priorities in many countries. This is due to the conflict in Iraq which, after three years of instability, made the price of oil increase from 30 to 80 dollars per barrel. Some even see the “gas crisis” in the relations between Russia and Western Europe as a continuation of the Cold War waged with different means. Every crisis on the world energy market is inevitably reflected on Serbia. With the exception of a paper by Zorana Mihajlović-Milanović, an attempt at providing a crosscut of Serbia’s energy security has not been made to this date. That is why the need for a relevant analysis seems all the more urgent.[...]

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