title: A Fine Balance: The Geopolitics of the Global Energy Transition in MENA
abstract: The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is a critical one in the global energy transition, because of its core role in producing, using and exporting oil and natural gas. As international policies on climate change become more stringent, and new energy systems gain in competitiveness, its economic and political systems face the twin challenge of falling resource rents, and the global geopolitical and geoeconomic shift towards Asia. Regional countries are to different degrees implementing 
journal: Lecture notes in energy