This is the draft structure of my upcoming final paper, in which I analyze why oil companies face a new form of security risk throughout the entire value chain. Pls. contact me for details.

1. Business at Risk: Energy Companies in the Era of Terrorism
(Thesis Outline)
At the beginning of the 21st
century, oil companies faced a
new form of security risk that
affected the whole value chain.
International community was
Non-state actors (NSA)
The operating environment adopting to new security
increasingly targeted energy
had changed. conditions in the energy
infrastructure.
field.
Business
Oil became There were Attacking
NSA roles in
The attacks
sector
the historical the oil
the post-
impacted the
became
cornerstone precedents industry was
Cold War
industry and
more
of the world in private part of their
security involved in the global
economy sector ideology &
landscape security economy.
and politics. targeting. strategy.
grew. affairs.
© Jan Havranek, 2009