"Common Goals – Different Approaches?" is a two-year research and dialogue program jointly implemented by the Global Public Policy Institute, Berlin and the Brookings Institution.
The project will focus on the role of markets and institutions in fostering global energy security. Rather than adopting a traditional security lens to studying energy security, this project will assess ways in which global energy governance can be strengthened by creating and deepening markets, and adapting the "rules of the game". The project combines policy research with constructive and forward-looking transatlantic dialogue among researchers, industry experts and policymakers.
This project reviews the history of OPEC, from its nascent in Bagdad in 1960 to today. The objective of the project is to understand and explain OPEC's history, as well as to develop an understanding of its role and potential in the 21st century. In particular, the project will analyze to what extent OPEC has been able to effectively function as a cartel in its 50 years of existence, and what level of influence it will yield in the years ahead.
The Global Energy Assessment (GEA) is a major initiative established by IIASA in late 2005 to help decision makers address the challenges of providing energy services for sustainable development, whilst ameliorating existing and emerging threats associated with: security of supply; access to modern forms of energy for development and poverty alleviation; local, regional and global environmental impacts; and securing sufficient investment.
Andreas Goldthau, Associate Professor at the Department of Public Policy and Jan Martin Witte, Associate Director of the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi), Berlin published a book entitled “OPEC: Between Power and Impotence” (German title: “Die OPEC: Macht und Ohnmacht des Öl-Kartells”).
