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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We would like to thank New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) for hosting the con-
ference on
Energy Developments in a changing world - Political, economic and legal
realignments
(January 2015) that led to this volume. We would also like to acknowl-
edge Hervé Crès, Dean of Social Science at NYUAD for his encouragement and support.
Special thanks go as well to the Master Program in Energy and the Research Centre of
the University of Piraeus, Greece and to the Rachel Carson Center in Munich where a
number of the contributors sojourned as fellows in the summer of 2015. Finally, we
would like to acknowledge NYUAD Global Academic Fellows, Olga Krestyaninova and
Ben Hackenberger for their assistance in the editing process.