With Barack Obama now one month into his presidency, it is clear that energy security will be a cornerstone of his domestic policy agenda, the Journal of Energy Security reports.

And in order to be successful in differentiating between the various tenets of a successful energy security policy, the president will need to act along military, domestic and economic lines, the journal insists.

One key consideration will be ensuring safe navigability in domestic and international waters, a strategy that will require the training of both military and private sector maritime staff to develop safe trade routes in cooperation with other international actors.

However, in order to maintain a stable oil price, Obama will also have to complement this security training with subtler diplomatic and economic instruments to ensure that energy security does not become a "militarised" issue, the article concludes.

In a bid to ease reliance on foreign energy supplies, Barack Obama has pledged a substantial portion of his $787 billion (£555 billion) stimulus package to the development of new energy infrastructure in the US, helping to create jobs through training and re-training in the industry.

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