A new regime in Turkmenistan has energy analysts and human rights activists hopeful of better days ahead for this post-Soviet state.

With the UN set to revisit the nuclear issue, Iran’s economy is tumbling due to its mismanaged energy sector and U.S. financial sanctions.

Energy disputes, pipeline politics, and a takeover of the Sakhalin II project have clouded Russia’s relations with its neighbors and foreign investors.

Energy and security issues topped the agenda during Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev's trip to Washington. Yet human rights advocates were pressing the White House to place more emphasis on Kazakhstan's democracy deficit.

Hugo Chavez's recent world tour secured arms deals and an energy pact with a U.S. nemesis, Iran, but it's unclear whether the Venezuelan president's oil-fueled rise is sustainable.

Evo Morales, Bolivia's populist president, has nationalized his country's energy industry. The decision will have specific economic ramifications, and possibly broader political ones in a region that lacks a coherent identity.

U.S. politicians are scrambling to deal with the impact of $3-per-gallon gasoline, but some of the main causes for the recent spikes lay beyond U.S. shores—or control.

Twenty years ago, an explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear plant, which spread radioactivity over Europe, seemed to be the death knell of the industry. But a renaissance of interest in nuclear power is underway, driven by higher energy prices, global warming, new technologies, and, some argue, short memories.

Russia and China are signing groundbreaking deals to deliver Russian oil and gas to feed surging Chinese demand. The economic cooperation is also reflected on the political side, where the two nations are joining to counter U.S. influence in Central Asia and around the world.

In his State of the Union speech, President Bush said America is "addicted to oil" and proposed using technology to reduce Americans' dependence on foreign oil. Critics say the proposals are farfetched, inadequate, and contradict the administration's own policies.

U.S. and Indian officials try to work out terms for an unprecedented deal on civilian nuclear cooperation ahead of a planned trip by President Bush later this year. Critics say the agreement is too lenient toward India and will damage nonproliferation efforts around the world.

Chinese diplomats have played a significant role in nonproliferation talks with both North Korea and Iran. But fears of a North Korean collapse and dependency on Iranian oil has kept Beijing from taking a hard line.

Michael A. Levi writes that "climate change needs to be confronted," but that an overemphasis on clean technology could lead to new conflicts.

Megan L. O'Sullivan says, "strength in the energy domain can be a major driver of U.S. influence."

Michael A. Levi examines the potential security risks of U.S. dependence on oil in this response to an article published previously in Security Studies.

Michael A. Levi and Daniel P. Ahn say, "If lawmakers decide to go ahead with further deficit reduction, they would be remiss not to take a hard look at higher oil taxes as part of the deal."

In this paper in Climatic Change, Michael A. Levi constructs and models climate stabilization scenarios that feature natural gas as a bridge fuel.

Drawing on lessons from a Council on Foreign Relations workshop in January 2012, Blake Clayton and Michael A. Levi examine the connection between global oil markets and international relations, saying that in many cases the oil trade is politically consequential simply because policymakers believe that it is.

After decades of fueling hunger for oil in the United States, Europe, and China, Blake Clayton says that the Middle East itself has developed a voracious appetite for energy.

Blake Clayton says what's really behind New York's epic gasoline lines in the wake of Hurricane Sandy is the problem of getting gas and power to gas stations, with panic buying making things all the worse.