Research On Middle East Oil Security Reasons Geopolitical Perspective

As we all know, oil is far from just a simple commodity in today’s international status but has become an important strategic resource with strategic interests and political objectives. Oil is mostly from areas in long-term political unrest and military war conflicts-Middle East. The Middle East has known as "the world’s oil treasure", from which today major oil importing countries’oil consumption mostly comes. Complexity of the Middle East regions and the importance for Oil importing countries give arise to the oil issue in this region to be always thought about and concentrated on by national academics and policymakers in the past and at present.Although the cause of Middle East oil security for many reasons, such as terrorist attacks, anti-Western and radical religious sentiments, the natural factors and so on, from the perspective of resource geopolitics analysis, its root rests on security considerations for the strategic resource as well as control of this resource to optimize their political power and in the Middle East carrying out different strategies and implement different Foreign policies. Traditional geopolitical is simply based on geographical location to classify different countries and the root causes of conflicts between interest groups. But the author believes that fight for the resources of the world today should be divided from the perspective of the resources geopolitical point. Petroleum resources, for example, should be divided into three interest groups:the major oil-exporting countries, major oil importing countries, and non-state actors formed around oil. Based on these three interest groups, their external contradictions and internal conflicts for oil interests lead to the control of the oil resources of the competition, which ultimately affect the Middle East oil security.Therefore, this study commenced in accordance with the following ideas and draws the appropriate conclusions:1. From a geopolitical perspective, the traditional geopolitical factors are only from a geographical point of intersection to divide power struggle, it can’t fully explain the reasons for the current Middle East oil insecurity. Resources should provide a basis that different stakeholders are divided for oil in order to find underlying factors that fundamentally affect the Middle East oil security.2. The author based on the above perspectives, respectively discusses three mentioned above interest groups, specifically summarized as two major internal and external factors, including the Middle East internal economic structural contradictions which not only becomes the focus of analysis but also the fundamental factor. In a word, the Middle East depends on oil resource to develop its oil economy, but because pure oil economy has brought about a series of social contradictions. For instance, uneven distribution of wealth, corruption, widening gap between the rich and the poor, migrant workers conflicts, water and so on. And because of the region’s complex religious and political conflicts, cooperation and competition between countries interwoven, these social contradictions get more complicated. Meanwhile, the way the government resolves these contradictions is to further depend on oil, thus forming a vicious cycle. So, the intensification of conflicts, such as civil wars, strikes, etc., will directly affect the normal production of oil, output, and the stability of international oil prices.3. External factors:the input states and non-state actors are grouped into external factors in this research. The research mainly talks about American hegemony, the game between the great powers, transnational oil companies, the conflicts among international organizations in the Middle East. External forces not only have involved in deepening the complexity of the region, but also directly affected oil security.4. The research is based on the above analysis of factors affecting the Middle East oil security, which is for serving China to put forward proposals on oil risks and strategies in the Middle East.