Articles by Javier Solana

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Western Military Intervention Will Leave Syria in Permanent Ruins Say Two Former NATO Secretary Generals
Javier Solana & Jaap de Hoop Scheffer – New York Times, 17 Jun 2013

13 June 2013 – Rather than secure humanitarian space and empower a political transition, Western military engagement is likely to provoke further escalation on all sides, deepening the civil war.

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Energy Markets or Energy Governance?
Javier Solana and Ángel Saz-Carranza – Project Syndicate, 14 Nov 2011

Other crises are occupying the world’s attention, distracting governments and citizens from the energy challenges before us. In the United States, there has been no energy debate at the federal level for a long time; the European Union is in the eye of a financial hurricane; and the emerging countries want to maintain rapid economic growth. Managing energy requires taking into account technical, political, and economic dimensions simultaneously. Energy policy is national, but the sector’s externalities are global.

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