摘要:This article highlights the security impact of oil nationalization, develops and analyzes four energysecurity scenarios, and suggests options to reduce the potential negative impact of oil nationalization.In addition to the use of oil as a weapon, nationalization of oil can also lead to competition for scarceresources among states, facilitate the funding of terrorists or insurgents, contribute to destabilizingregional arms races, influence intra-state conflict, and sustain antagonistic political agendas.This article is available in Journal of Strategic Security:http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/jss/vol3/iss4/13