Considerations on a new branch of public international law-Energy international law

Considering the perspectives of increase of the consumption of energetic resources related to the reality of exhaustion of resources having as main characteristic the fact that they are limited, the problem of energetic security is paid a special attention by political decidents. In this context, this topic was and still is the topic of analyses and studies of external, security and defence policy. Therefore, it was noticed in time the shaping of a new branch of public international law, pursuant to the materialisation of states' interests in the topical fields such as peace law, environment law, development law, international law of human rights, aviation, spatial and cosmic law. (C) 2012 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer review under responsibility of Prof. Dr. Huseyin Arasli