Gli shock petroliferi degli anni Settanta

Overview & Synopsis

Fifty years after the first oil crisis, Italy and most of the western countries are still facing the problem of their own national energy security and the challenges of the global energy transition to non-fossil sources. The answer to the 70s crisis was, above all, the shift from dependence on Arab and Middle Eastern oil imports to dependence on natural gas imports, mainly from Russia. Considering the shocking impact of both the pandemic crisis and the Russian-Ukrainian war on the world energy market, the shift towards the natural gas has proved not to be the best option in terms of national energy security. This volume presents the result of studies and researches that some of the major historians and scholars of energy issues in Italy have conducted on the several consequences of the 70s oil shocks and on the origins of the current energy security uncertainties in Europe.