America's International Energy Strategy Study

This paper reviews the theory of geopolitics, and develops a framework of energy geopolitics theory. The theory contains three variables:power. International Energy Strategy and international energy systems. The international energy system has five elements:energy supplys, energy demands, and transportation tunnels, energy market and energy international regimes.The second Chapter introduces the reason of U.S. international energy strategy, and uses the energy geopolitics theory to analyse the involving procession of U.S. international Energy Strategy and its effect on oil system, and to find that the international oil system is highly consistent with the U.S. hegemony system.The third Chapter introduces the goal of U.S. international energy strategy, and the means and character of U.S. international energy strategy. The means of U.S. energy strategy are energy diplomacy, control of energy source, the control of energy transportation tunnels, the strategic energy reserve and the oil-dollar mechanism. By these means, The U.S. controls the international energy system. The character of U.S. international energy strategy is as follows:1. The U.S. energy strategy is closely related with U.S. geopolitics strategy.2. The U.S. energy strategy is closely related with U.S. international hegemony.3. The U.S. international strategy is closely cooperating with U.S. military acions.4.the U.S. international strategy is highly legislative.In Chapter four, a case of the U.S. Asia energy strategy is applied to analyse how the U.S. puts its international energy into practice. From the analysis, we can find that the U.S. Asia energy strategy is the core of The U.S. international energy strategy. West Asia and Middle Asia are the oil heart of the world oil supplys. South Asia is the crucial place of the energy transportation tunnels. East Asia is a very important part of oil demand. The U.S. launched the Iraq war, Afghanistan War, and implemented the great Middle East programme, the great middle Asia programme'"Step by step; it controls Middle East and the Middle Asia, as well as the South Asia, and has great influence on East Asia oil market. In addition to the oil-dollar mechanism, the future market, and the oil strategic reserve, the U.S. controls the international oil price. By controlling international energy system, The U.S. maintains its hegemony.