U.S. Strategic Energy Interests and Tactics for Their Implementation Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic and Russia's Special Military Operation in Ukraine

Abstract

Relevance. Relations between states, due to either energy cooperation or confrontation, have entered the most acute phase since the beginning of the XXI century, since competition in this industry has become a leading element of the foreign policy of world powers. The purpose is to consider the stages of formation and development of the US energy strategy in the current conditions of world politics.Objectives: to study the activities of us presidents in the context of the implementation of the country's energy interests; to study the legal framework of the US energy dominance in different countries and continents: highlight the significant tactical steps of the US government in the field of realizing the country's energy interests.Methodology. The application of the method of document analysis made it possible to identify the strategic priorities of the policy of the US governments in their dynamics. The retrospective method of analyzing US policy made it possible to prove the idea of the purposeful participation of the US military departments in ensuring the national security of the country in the economic sector.Relevance. The dynamics of the US energy strategy is analyzed on the example of the activities of its presidents from the end of the twentieth century to the present, which showed the transformation of the country's energy strategy from regional dominance, from the position of a net importer of energy resources to global dominance and transformation into a net exporter of energy resources through economic (development of shale deposits), military (expansion of NATO bases in the regions of oil and gas production) and diplomatic (summits, sanctions), etc.Conclusions. Thus, the energy boom leads to a change in the geopolitical alignment of forces in the world, a decrease in the influence of OPEC countries on the formation of oil prices. The shale revolution is at the heart of a fundamental shift in the balance of power. All this makes it possible for the United States to reduce dependence on energy imports and expand freedom of action in Europe, the Middle East, and Central Asia.