Publications

Spatial Modeling of Bargaining Among Stakeholders in Energy Policy: The Case of Japanese Nuclear Plants

Emre Hatipoglu, Brian Efird, Saleh Al Muhanna

This paper evaluates the evolving political will in Japan to restart nuclear power plants to generate electric power, in light of the country’s political and economic developments over the past few years. We apply a model of collective decision-making processes…

Hatipoglu, Emre

Efird, Brian

Al Muhanna, Saleh

Contextualizing Uncontrolled Oil Trade Flows: A Novel Categorization

Science Direct

Majed A. Al Suwailem, Emre Hatipoglu, Saleh Al Muhanna, Abdelrahman Muhsen

Renewables and the Future of Geopolitics: Revisiting Main Concepts of International Relations from the Lens of Renewables

Russian Journal of Economics

The development of renewable energy is often treated as a purely positive outcome for the world, without consideration of the challenges that come with implementation at scale, which will inevitably follow with the process of a global energy transition. Studies…

Emre Hatipoglu, Saleh Al Muhanna, Brian Efird

Ensuring An Equitable Pandemic Response: Lessons Learned from Covid-19

T20

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed our collective vulnerability, as the health of the global community has proven crucial to maintaining the health of individual communities. In essence, we are only as strong as our weakest link. In this policy brief,…

Hanan Alahmadi, Nasser BinDhim, Saleh Al Muhanna, AlJawhara Al Quayid, Waleed AlSalem

The Relentless Politics of Climate Change: The Paris Agreement

Saleh Al Muhanna, AlJawhara Al Quayid, Nourah Al Hosain

The Paris Agreement entered into force in November 2016 and, to date, 187 parties have ratified it (UFCCC). The Agreement’s goal is to limit the increase in global temperature to 2 degrees Celsius (°C) above] pre-industrial levels. The Agreement established…

Al Muhanna, Saleh

Al Quayid, AlJawhara

Al Hosain, Nourah

U.S.-Iran Tensions and the Waiver Renewal for Iranian Gas Exports to Iraq

Majed A. Al Suwailem, Saleh Al Muhanna, Rami Shabaneh

Following the assassination of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani in Baghdad on January 3, as a result of a United States (U.S.) airstrike, the Iraqi Parliament passed a resolution stating that it “must work to end the presence of any foreign…

Al Suwailem, Majed A.

Al Muhanna, Saleh

Shabaneh, Rami

Political Feasibility of Enhancing the Russian Emissions Reduction Target Under the Paris Agreement

Imtenan Al-Mubarak, Saleh Al Muhanna, Zlata Sergeeva

It is widely recognized that the commitments set out in the Paris Agreement fall short of achieving the 2 degrees Celsius global warming target, agreed as the central goal of the agreement and its parties. Given this, KAPSARC has set…

Al-Mubarak, Imtenan

Al Muhanna, Saleh

Sergeeva, Zlata

Assessing Politics in Market Projections-Restarting Japanese Nuclear Reactors and Global Gas Markets

Saleh Al Muhanna, Rami Shabaneh

This paper explores the value of explicitly integrating the modeling of political concerns into a model of energy market projections. This is achieved by assessing the impact on global gas markets of political constraints on restarting Japanese nuclear reactors. The…

Al Muhanna, Saleh

Shabaneh, Rami

Can Japanese Nuclear Power Be Restarted Sooner? A Simulation of Alternative Scenarios

Saleh Al Muhanna, Imtenan Al-Mubarak, Brian Efird, Faisal Al-Ghamdi

This study assesses whether there are politically plausible paths to more quickly gain support for restarting Japanese nuclear power plants and considers alternative scenarios. It builds on the 2018 KAPSARC discussion paper, “The Policymaking Process to Restart Japanese Nuclear Power,”…

Al Muhanna, Saleh

Al-Mubarak, Imtenan

Efird, Brian

Al-Ghamdi, Faisal

The Political Feasibility of Enhancing Greenhouse Gas Emissions Targets in the European Union’s Mid-Century Strategy

AlJawhara Al Quayid, Saleh Al Muhanna, Paul Mollet

Article 4.19 of the 2015 Paris Agreement calls on signatories to formulate and communicate “long-term low greenhouse gas development strategies,” widely known as the mid-century strategy (MCS). Any enhancement of the European Union’s (EU’s) targets in its MCS depends on…

Al Quayid, AlJawhara

Al Muhanna, Saleh

Mollet, Paul

The Policymaking Process to Restart Japanese Nuclear Power Plants

Brian Efird, Saleh Al Muhanna, Imtenan Al-Mubarak, Shahad Turkistani, Faisal Al-Ghamdi

The Japanese government’s decision to continue restarting nuclear power is shaped by a combination of domestic political concerns, energy security challenges, and its ability to meet climate change commitments and targets. Nuclear power plants have started to come back online,…

Efird, Brian

Al Muhanna, Saleh

Al-Mubarak, Imtenan

Turkistani, Shahad

Al-Ghamdi, Faisal

OPEC Oil Production Data: The Role of Secondary Sources

Paul Mollet, Saleh Al Muhanna

OPEC oil production data is a key to understanding not just global energy balances but also the international oil market. Historically, most OPEC oil production figures are opaque as governments either consider them to be confidential and do not publish…

Mollet, Paul

Al Muhanna, Saleh

The Politics of European Union Climate Governance

Paul Mollet, Saleh Al Muhanna, AlJawhara Al Quayid

The European Union (EU) is facing a critical period as the European Commission draws up a 2050 climate strategy roadmap that is likely to form the basis for the EU’s next nationally determined contribution to the COP21 Paris Agreement. Until recently, the UK was the…

Mollet, Paul

Al Muhanna, Saleh

Al Quayid, AlJawhara

Assessment of the Political Feasibility of Developing a GCC Power Market

Paul Mollet, Imtenan Al-Mubarak, Brian Efird, Saleh Al Muhanna, Omar Al-Ubayli

Countries in the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf, commonly known as the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), established a regional power grid to support member countries’ high voltage networks in 2001 but, to date, the system has remained underutilized.…

Mollet, Paul

Al-Mubarak, Imtenan

Efird, Brian

Al Muhanna, Saleh

Al-Ubayli, Omar

Brexit, the German Perspective

International Journal of Scientific & Engineering Research

Saleh Al Muhanna