Energy and Politics

Charles Doran is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of International Relations and Director of the Global Theory and History Program at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D.C. He is also a Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.He has written extensively on energy politics, and directed a multi-year project on Persian Gulf energy security at the Middle East Institute for the MacArthur Foundation and a project on North American free trade for the Foreign Policy Institute. He is well-known for his "power cycle" theory in international politics, as well as his expertise on Canadian politics. Part of the Engineering Thematic Year on Energy and Sustainability.