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Chapter 6
Trump Energy Diplomacy
Abstract By 2016 and during the presidential campaign Trump made it noticeably
clear that his administration, if elected, would pursue a global dominance strategy
that is quite different from the strategy pursued by previous presidents; they always
talked about energy independence, energy self-sufficiency. But with Trump, a very
sharp break is noticeable; he talked about global energy dominance. Exporting
energy to increase relations with neighboring countries and US allies has been the
focus of the Obama and Trump administrations, and this policy will be one of the
basic principles of US foreign policy in the next US administration. Meanwhile,
sanctions on the energy industry of different countries have also played an important role in the foreign policy of the Trump administration. During Trump’s presidency, the country had major foreign policy problems with China, Iran, North
Korea, and Russia
The US withdrawal from JCPOA and the imposition of sanctions on Iran’s oil
exports, followed by a policy of maximum pressure on it, has been one of the key
points of the Trump administration’s foreign policy. US energy independence has
provided the country with the opportunity to increase energy exports to the global
energy market and has even allowed the US government to use energy sanctions
against major energy-producing countries. A major development in the energy market during the Trump administration was the spread of covid-19 and oil price
decline. Oil prices were one of the most important challenges in US energy policy
under Trump, although Trump worked hard to minimize the impact of the
Coronavirus outbreak and falling oil prices on the US economy and US shale.
Keywords Natural gas diplomacy strategy · Energy dominance · Covid-19
pandemic and energy market · Oil price war · Energy independence · Sanctions
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
O. Shokri Kalehsar, US Energy Diplomacy in the Caspian Sea Basin,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66929-4_6
Chapter 6
Trump Energy Diplomacy
Abstract By 2016 and during the presidential campaign Trump made it noticeably
clear that his administration, if elected, would pursue a global dominance strategy
that is quite different from the strategy pursued by previous presidents; they always
talked about energy independence, energy self-sufficiency. But with Trump, a very
sharp break is noticeable; he talked about global energy dominance. Exporting
energy to increase relations with neighboring countries and US allies has been the
focus of the Obama and Trump administrations, and this policy will be one of the
basic principles of US foreign policy in the next US administration. Meanwhile,
sanctions on the energy industry of different countries have also played an important role in the foreign policy of the Trump administration. During Trump’s presidency, the country had major foreign policy problems with China, Iran, North
Korea, and Russia
The US withdrawal from JCPOA and the imposition of sanctions on Iran’s oil
exports, followed by a policy of maximum pressure on it, has been one of the key
points of the Trump administration’s foreign policy. US energy independence has
provided the country with the opportunity to increase energy exports to the global
energy market and has even allowed the US government to use energy sanctions
against major energy-producing countries. A major development in the energy market during the Trump administration was the spread of covid-19 and oil price
decline. Oil prices were one of the most important challenges in US energy policy
under Trump, although Trump worked hard to minimize the impact of the
Coronavirus outbreak and falling oil prices on the US economy and US shale.
Keywords Natural gas diplomacy strategy · Energy dominance · Covid-19
pandemic and energy market · Oil price war · Energy independence · Sanctions