Conference Report The Asian Energy Security Conference

One could be excused for wondering why a city in the American southern belt was playing host to the recent Asian Energy Security Conference (AESC), a high-quality meeting discussing energy security in Asia and focusing on seaborne carriage of energy. At first sight, it seemed a bit jarring for a city close to some of the American Civil War’s most important and
revered battlefields to provide a focal point for some of the world’s foremost experts in the field of Asian energy and maritime security.