Knowledge of basic approaches to understanding the essence of international and national security, their varieties;
Ability to distinguish the basic components and the issue of state energy security;
Knowledge and understanding of the stages of historical development and the ability to analyze the current state in ensuring international energy security;
Uunderstanding the nature of the main threats to international and national energy security;
Understanding of energy reserves peculiarities in the world and conflict potential that includes completeness of such stocks;
Knowledge of the regulatory framework and challenges related to ensuring nuclear safety;
Knowledge of basic types and specifics of international organizations in the field of energy security;
Knowledge of the European Energy Charter and the EU energy security problems;
Understanding of the theoretical and practical aspects of energy security of Ukraine.

Prerequisite: Political Science
Co-requisite: Energy Audit

National and International Security: the nature and main challenges. State energy security and the problem of its ensuring. Global energy security: history, current status, challenges and perspectives. Main energy carriers in the world: reserves dynamics and conflict potential. Nuclear energy: international legal regulation and major risks. International organizations in energy sector and their activities in ensuring of international security. The EU energy security. European Energy Charter. Ukraine energy security: strategy and mechanisms of support.

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Gorbatova Ye. E. Obshchaya vneshnyaya politika i politika bezopasnosti ЄS: razvitie problemy / Gorbatova Ye. E. – M: IYe RAN, 2003. – 64 s.
Enerhetychna bezpeka Ukrainy: Stratehiia ta mekhanizmy zabezpechennia / Za red. A.I.Shevtsova. – Dnipropetrovsk: Porohy, 2002. – 264 s.
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Zabezpechennia enerhetychnoi bezpeky / Rada nats. bezpeky i oborony Ukrainy, Nats. instytut problem mizhnar. bezpeky. – K. – NIPMB, 2003. – 264 s.
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Osnovy teorii mizhnarodnykh vidnosyn : Navch. posibnyk / L.O.Dorosh, M.V. Zdoroveha, O.Ia.Ivasechko, U.V. Ilnytska, O.V. Kukartsev, Yu.R.Lemko, Yu.Ia. Tyshkun, Ya.B.Turchyn. – Lviv : Vydavnytstvo Lvivskoi politekhniky, 2015. – 244 s.
Palyvno-enerhetychnyi kompleks Ukrainy na porozi tretoho tysiacholittia / Za redaktsiieiu A.K. Shydlovskoho, M.P. Kovalka / NAN Ukrainy; Pidpryiemstvo «Ukrenerhozberezhennia». – Kyiv.: Ukr. entsyklopedychni znannia, 2001. – 400 s.
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Shevtsov A.I. Enerhetychna bezpeka Ukrainy: stratehiia ta mekhanizmy zabezpechennia / Shevtsov A.I., Zemlianyi M.H., Barannik V.O. ta in. / Za red. A.I.Shevtsova. – Dnipropetrovsk: Porohy, 2002. – 264 s.

Current control (100%): oral examination, speeches at seminars, writing test.