Special Focus: CRISIS AT THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ
Iran & the Strait of Hormuz — EPRINC Issue Topic Iran & the Strait of

Energy Policy Research Foundation’s Distinguished Fellow Dominick Blue and Director of Research Max Pyziur have been published in The National Interest. Their piece entitled: “The End of Voluntary Energy Security: America’s New Doctrine of Active Sovereignty”, which discusses how “The events of January 2026 reveal that Washington is moving to a war footing. The US Department of Energy (DOE) is becoming an operational arm of national defense, wielding a new strategy of “Shield and Sword.” Further, “Washington is replacing voluntary energy security with active sovereignty—treating grids and resources as battlefields and energy firms as instruments of power.”
Iran & the Strait of Hormuz — EPRINC Issue Topic Iran & the Strait of
Special Focus Venezuela’s Oil and Gas After Maduro January 2026 Following the January 3, 2026