Oil and intra-state conflict in Iraq and Syria: Turkey's energy security

What is it about?

This article addresses the relationship between oil and conflict. Then, it examines the case of Turkey’s increasing energy relations with the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) to elucidate the implications of inter-state and intra-state conflict on regional interdependence in the region. The argument asserts that risks of an abrupt regime change or revolutionary regime formation in the aftermath of civil war in Syria and ethnic or sectarian violence in Iraq should be reevaluated. These risks, highly associated with intra-state conflicts, present challenges for Turkey’s energy security and most importantly for human security in the region.

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