Forum Guidelines
Forum definition
The International Energy Forum is conceived as a meeting place for stakeholders from academia, energy companies, governments/politics and the media to reflect on and problematize different dimensions of energy policy and the geopolitics of energy..
Forum Concept
The International Energy Forum promotes the policy concept, or rather the concept of energy policy. The International Energy Forum is placed within the framework of political science. The fundamental idea of energy political science is the idea of power and empowerment of actors in the international community by using energy resources as a lever of micro and macro physics of power. The Forum wants to promote the meaning and importance of energy diplomacy, which is connected to foreign policy and overall national, especially energy security. The Forum operates within the framework of an institutional identity based on the problematization of energy policy and the geopolitics of energy.
Goals
To promote the importance of energy policy for the functioning of the economy in the global risk society and the geopolitics of energy as a type of political power of states.
Institutional design of the global energy forum (GLOBO-INTERENEF)
The forum aims to be shaped as a global energy forum modeled after Davos, headquartered in Zagreb. For more on the idea and political philosophy of the global energy forum, see Forum announcement