Description
The challenges posed by the current global energy crisis have led various nations around the world to adopt multiple initiatives to promote the stability of national energy sectors, given their vital role in establishing economic and social development. As the interests of individual countries may be colliding, the energy issue has become inseparably incorporated into diplomacy in different international forums where, unsurprisingly, the positions taken reflect the differing national realities. Still, the effects of the current energy crisis transcend borders without discriminating between the levels of development that each nation has reached. At the same time, skyrocketing prices of energy services are placing nation states in a complex situation where strategies are being devised to mitigate their impact on the economy, on countries’ economic sectors and population groups, amongst which especially the residential sector.Despite the fact that the current energy crisis affects as good as all countries in the world, developing countries are undoubtedly the ones most affected by said crisis. The reason is that the fragility of developing countries' economies puts them in an extremely precarious position to respond to domestic energy demand in the face of increasing volatility in their domestic energy market. For these reasons, developing countries are constantly searching for alternatives, with their foreign policies supplying the framework for finding solutions to their national situations.
In light of this, Cuba, as a developing country with scarce available energy resources of its own and a fragile energy generation system, started to focus its national and foreign policy on key aspects of sustainable energy development on a national scale. Although energy diplomacy as a didactic category has not been extensively studied in Cuba, it may already be observed that the Caribbean nation's foreign policy reflects the main aspects of Cuban energy diplomacy in an extraordinarily complex context. The country's energy development has thus become a priority that is reflected in the establishment and consolidation of international relations, especially aimed to confront the effects of the harsh economic and financial siege that the United States of America has imposed on the country since 1960. Needless to say that the economic and financial blockade Cuba has been facing for seven decades already, by now affects all international trade relations, which has severely affected the national economy, amongst which the energy sector.
In light of these observations, the general objective of this research is to determine the foundations of Cuban energy diplomacy by identifying its challenges and perspectives. By means of main intended research results, the research especially wants to determine the basic conditions that support Cuban energy diplomacy, as well as the main obstacles that Cuba faces today to achieve its national goal and targets.
| Periode | 23 nov 2022 |
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| Evenementstitel | Diplomacia de Sustentabilidade: Poderá a ciência com ética salvar o mundo? A Importância da ciência com consciência para os ODS e a diplomacia científica e tecnológica |
| Evenementstype | Conference |
| Locatie | Coimbra, Portugal |
| Mate van erkenning | International |