Energy security in the Mediterranean and regional policy of Italy in the end of the XXth - beginning of the XXIst centuries

One of the most important conditions for the security system in the Mediterranean at the period 20 - beginning of the 21-st centuries it was an ensuring the economic stability for all of states in the region. There was a significant imbalance in the development of the countries of sub-region. Because of this reason the main instrument, which ensured the achievement of this condition, there were multilateral cooperation in the field of trade and the building of energy-dialogue. Traditionally energy shortages in the EU-countries and, on the contrary, the availability of energy resources on the territory of non-European countries of the Mediterranean basin determined the nature and forms of relationships between participants of political processes in the region. Modern development processes addressing energy security in the region and the necessity to build a model of the global energy balance is largely determined by the factors and parameters that were incorporated as a part of the studied historical period. The desire of some states to a monopoly in economic and political components of the regional policy was due primarily to the requirement for internal control in the sphere of production and distribution of energy resources. Thus, the resource component, namely the energy aspect, directly determined the parameters of the model of regional security system, in general.