UNIT 1. GEOPOLITICS OF THE ENERGY TRANSITION: WHY DOES HYDROGEN MATTER? 1. The basics of the geopolitics of the energy transition 2. Political history of hydrogen: bubbles and expectations 3. The arrival of hydrogen geopolitics 4. Hydrogen geopolitics in the context of climate change 5. Actors of hydrogen geopolitics UNIT 2. ACTORS OF HYDROGEN GEOPOLITICS 1. Importers: the case of the European Union 2. Hydrogen in the Survival and Energy Transition of Petro-states: The Case of the Gulf Co-operation Council 3. Emerging exporters and neoexctractivism 4. Emerging tech superpowers: China 5. Emerging industrial power: the United States UNIT 3. THE GEOPOLITICS OF HYDROGEN VALUE CHAINS 1. Hydrogen in the new globalization of derisking, decoupling and friendshoring 2. Strategic minerals for the hydrogen economy 3. The geopolitics of electrolyzers 4. Hydrogen and the reconfiguration of value chains 5. Hydrogen and the return of industrial policies UNIT 4. THE STRATEGIC DIMENSION OF HYDROGEN 1. Hydrogen diplomacy 2. Hydrogen and the geopolitics of critical infrastructure 3. Hydrogen and green colonialism 4. Allies and rivals in hydrogen geopolitics 5. Comparative study of hydrogen strategies in the EU