The security implications of East Asia’s growing demand for energy have become the focus of increasing attention and debate. To some, the prospect that East Asian countries will increasingly rely on foreign energy imports, compete and possibly clash in the exploitation of new reserves, and expand significantly their civil nuclear power infrastructures raises a host of disquieting security concerns that could become a potent source of regional instability and even conflict. Others are more sanguine about such energy-related instability, believing that the global energy market and the…
