For decades, U.S. energy policy has treated allies’ energy security as a national security matter, and the Caspian region has drawn outsized bipartisan attention within that approach for over thirty years.
Brenda Shaffer traces how Washington’s engagement with Caspian energy, from the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline onward, has endured even as America’s own energy abundance has grown, and asks what role the region should still play in U.S. policy now that Washington is no longer dependent on its supplies.
