Emily Meierding, Ph.D. - Department of National Security Affairs
Associate Professor
Expertise: Energy Politics, Environmental Security, Economic Statecraft
Emily Meierding is Associate Professor of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School. She is the author of The Oil Wars Myth: Petroleum and the Causes of International Conflict (Cornell University Press, 2020), which challenges the conventional wisdom that countries fight wars to grab oil resources. Her research has also examined international resource cooperation, oil prices and political instability, energy sanctions, states’ cultivation of international influence, and the linkages between climate change and armed conflict. Her work has appeared in Security Studies, Comparative Politics, the Journal of Global Security Studies, the International Studies Review, Energy Research & Social Sciences, and Foreign Policy, and she has testified before the United States–China Economic and Security Review Commission. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago. Before joining NPS, she taught or researched at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva, Switzerland) and the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) at Stanford University.
Meierding’s current research extends her work on energy and environmental security by examining Arctic resource politics, the geographies of licit and illicit commodity markets, and environmental security cooperation.
Teaching Interests:
• Energy Security and Geopolitics
• Environmental Security
• Economic Statecraft
• International Relations Theory
• American National Security Policy
Recent Publications:
• Meierding, Emily (2022) “Over a Barrel? Oil Busts and Petrostate Stability ,” Comparative Politics 54(4): 671–694.
• Meierding, Emily (2022) “Oil, Materiality, and Interstate War,” in Handbook on Oil and International Relations , edited by Roland Dannreuther and Wojciech Ostrowski (Edgar Elgar).
• Meierding, Emily (2021) “Weaponizing Energy Interdependence,” in The Uses and Abuses of Weaponized Interdependence , edited by Daniel Drezner, Henry Farrell, and Abraham Newman (Brookings).
• Meierding, Emily and Rachel Sigman (2021) “Understanding the Mechanisms of International Influence in an Era of Great Power Competition ,” Journal of Global Security Studies 6(4): 1–18.