Energy resources are increasingly shaping politics in Eurasia. Turkey is mending fences with the Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq to satisfy its skyrocketing internal demand.
New gas discoveries in the Eastern Mediterranean are already having a profound effect on the region’s intricate political relations. The Southern Gas Corridor has the potential to reshape Central and South Eastern Europe’s energy landscape by bringing gas from Azerbaijan to Europe.
Energy resources are increasingly shaping politics in Eurasia. Turkey is mending fences with the Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq to satisfy its skyrocketing internal demand. New gas discoveries in the Eastern Mediterranean are already having a profound effect on the region’s intricate political relations. The Southern Gas Corridor has the potential to reshape Central and South Eastern Europe’s energy landscape by bringing gas from Azerbaijan to Europe. Shale gas can turn nations hitherto entirely dependent on import into energy producers. How can energy be turned into a force for good instead of bitter rivalry and renewed tensions? How can the risk of conflict be minimized and the incentives for regional cooperation maximized? What role can the countries and the region, the United States, the European Union and Russia play?
David Koranyi is deputy director of the Council’s Patriciu Eurasia Center.
Mr. Koranyi is also a Non-resident Fellow at the Johns Hopkins University SAIS Centre for Transatlantic Relations. Previously he served as under-secretary of state and chief foreign policy and national security advisor to the Prime Minister of the Republic of Hungary, Gordon Bajnai in 2009-2010. He worked in the European Parliament as a foreign policy advisor and head of the cabinet of Hungarian MEP Csaba Tabajdi between 2004-2009. Previously he was a political advisor at the Hungarian National Assembly and a junior researcher at GKI Economic Research Institute, in Budapest, Hungary.
Mr. Koranyi is a Member of the European Council on Foreign Relations, the Atlantic Council of the United States and the International Advisory Board of the XII Project. He was a member of the Hungarian NATO Strategic Concept Special Advisory Group, recipient of the German Marshall Fund’s 2010 Marshall Memorial Fellowship (MMF), MMF Selection Board Member in 2011 and beneficiary of the French Foreign Ministry’s Personalities of the Future Fellowship in 2012.
Mr. Koranyi has published articles and studies on energy security, Hungarian and U.S. foreign policy, European integration and the Western Balkans. He is the editor of a book “Transatlantic Energy Futures – Strategic Perspectives on Energy Security, Climate Change and New Technologies in Europe and the United States” published in December 2011 by Johns Hopkins SAIS CTR.
Mr. Koranyi pursued undergraduate studies in political economy and business administration and obtained a Master’s Degree in International Relations and Economics, with a major in Foreign Affairs at the Corvinus University of Budapest.