The Palgrave Handbook of the International Political Economy of Energy

by Thijs Van de Graaf (Editor), Benjamin K. Sovacool (Editor), Arunabha Ghosh (Editor), Florian Kern (Editor), Michael T. Klare (Editor)

Overview

This Handbook is the first volume to analyse the International Political Economy, the who-gets-what-when-and-how, of global energy. Divided into five sections, it features 28 contributions that deal with energy institutions, trade, transitions, conflict and justice. The chapters span a wide range of energy technologies and markets - including oil and gas, biofuels, carbon capture and storage, nuclear, and electricity - and it cuts across the domestic-international divide. Long-standing issues in the IPE of energy such as the role of OPEC and the ‘resource curse’ are combined with emerging issues such as fossil fuel subsidies and carbon markets. IPE perspectives are interwoven with insights from studies on governance, transitions, security, and political ecology. The Handbook serves as a potent reminder that energy systems are as inherently political and economic as they are technical or technological, and demonstrates that the field of IPE has much to offer to studies of the changing world of energy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137556301
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	09/06/2016
Series:	Palgrave Handbooks in IPE
Edition description:	1st ed. 2016
Pages:	743
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Thijs Van de Graaf is Assistant Professor of International Politics at the Ghent Institute for International Studies, Ghent University, Belgium. He was previously a visiting scholar at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School, USA. His research covers energy, world politics, and global governance.

Benjamin K. Sovacool is Professor of Energy Policy at the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) at the School of Business, Management, and Economics, part of the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom. He is also Director of the Center for Energy Technologies and Professor of Business and Social Sciences in the Department of Business Development and Technology at Aarhus University in Denmark. Professor Sovacool works as a researcher and consultant on issues pertaining to energy policy, energy security, climate change mitigation, and climate change adaptation.

Arunabha Ghosh is CEO of the Council on Energy, Environment and Water, one of South Asia’sleading policy research institutions. He previously worked at Princeton, Oxford, UNDP (New York) and WTO (Geneva) and has work experience in 36 countries. He is, most recently, co-author of Human Development and Global Institutions, and Climate Change: A Risk Assessment.

Florian Kern is Co-Director of the Sussex Energy Group and Senior Lecturer at SPRU-Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex, UK. His research focuses on energy, climate and innovation policy in the context of transitions towards more sustainable energy systems.

Michael T. Klare is the Five College Professor of Peace and World Security Studies, a joint appointment at Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and Smith Colleges and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is the author of 14 books including Resource Wars, Blood and Oil, and The Race for What’s Left.

Table of Contents

Part I. Introduction.- Chapter 1: States, markets and institutions: Integrating International Political Economy and global energy politics; Thijs Van de Graaf, Benjamin K. Sovacool, Arunabha Ghosh, Florian Kern, and Michael T. Klare.- Part II: Energy actors and institutions; Primary editor: Thijs Van de Graaf.- Chapter 2: Actors, frames and institutions in global energy politics; Thijs Van de Graaf and Fariborz Zelli.- Chapter 3: The past, present and future role of OPEC; Bassam Fattouh and Anupama Sen.- Chapter 4: Corporations, civil society and disclosure: a case study of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI); James van Alstine and Nathan Andrews.- Chapter 5: The UN, energy, and the Sustainable Development Goals; Sylvia Karlsson-Vinkhuyzen.- Chapter 6: The World Trade Organization’s role in global energy governance; Timothy Meyer.- Part III: Energy trade, finance and investment;
Primary editor: Arunabha Ghosh.- Chapter 7: Green energy trade conflicts: the political economy of a future energy system; Arunabha Ghosh; Chapter 8: The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, energy and divestment; Rafael Leal-Arcas and Constantino Grasso.- Chapter 9: The international oil and gas pricing regimes; Ustina Markus.- Chapter 10: The political economy of carbon markets; Richard Lane and Peter Newell.- Chapter 11: The politics and governance of energy subsidies; Harro van Asselt and Jakob Skovgaard.- PART IV. Energy transitions; Primary editor: Florian Kern.- Chapter 12: Energy transition studies and political economy considerations: prospects and challenges; Florian Kern and Jochen Markard.- Chapter 13: Developing and Deploying Carbon Capture and Storage Technologies: Explaining uneven progress; James Meadowcroft and James Gaede.- Chapter 14: Democracy and transitions: European experiences of policy inclusiveness and changes in the electricity industry; Mari Ratinen and Peter D. Lund.- Chapter 15: Second life or half-life? The contested future of nuclear power and its potential role in a sustainable energy transition; M.V. Ramana.- Chapter 16: The politics of biofuels.- John Alic; Part V. Energy conflict and the resource curse; Primary editor: Michael T. Klare.- Chapter 17: No blood for oil? Hydrocarbon abundance and international security; Michael T. Klare.- Chapter 18: Do countries fight over oil? Emily Meierding.- Chapter 19: Does Russia have a potent gas weapon? James Henderson.- Chapter 20: Energy, coercive diplomacy and sanctions
Llewellyn Hughes and Eugene Gholz.- Chapter 21: The resource curse puzzle across four waves of research; William Gochberg and Victor Menaldo.- Part VI: Energy justice and political ecology; Primary editor: Benjamin K. Sovacool.- Chapter 22: The political ecology and justice of energy; Benjamin K. Sovacool.- Chapter 23: The political ecology of oil and gas in West Africa’s Gulf of Guinea: State, petroleum, and conflict in Nigeria; Michael J. Watts.- Chapter 24: Dispossession, justice and a sustainable energy future; Majia H. Nadesan and Martin Pasqualetti.- Chapter 25: Energy and global production networks; Dustin Mulvaney.- Chapter 26: Enclosure and exclusion within emerging forms of energy resource extraction: shale fuels and biofuels; Arielle Hesse, Jennifer Baka, and Kirby Calvert.- Chapter 27: The political economy of energy justice: A nuclear energy perspective; Kirsten Jenkins, Raphael Heffron, and Darren McCauley.- Chapter 28: Energy justice in theory and practice: Building a pragmatic roadmap; Mark Cooper.-

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“Energy is one of the most central elements of the global economy, and it is ubiquitous in the political relations between nations. Yet the academic field of international political economy has focused erratically on only on a few niches of the energy system. At last, scholars have a handbook that masterfully covers the full waterfront. Van de Graaf and his colleagues give readers a tour of issues as diverse as the future of OPEC, cross-border investment, resource wars, climate change and the impacts of energy systems on social justice. What remains to be done is for mainstream international political economy to give these topics more attention, and this book helps show how that can be done.” (David G. Victor, University of California at San Diego, USA)

“An excellent book on one of the most pressing issues of our time: energy. The Handbook is distinctive not only because of its international political economy orientation, but also because of its comprehensiveness. The editors have amassed an impressive range of international experts on the political economy of energy to create an invaluable teaching resource on the subject for many years to come.” (Professor Michael Bradshaw, Professor of Global Energy, Warwick Business School, UK)

“After decades of neglect, international political economists have become active scholars on energy. The range and depth of that research is on display in this excellent Handbook which will serve as a great tool for PhD students as well as established scholars who want to understand the international political economy of energy.” (Kathleen J. Hancock, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado)

Editorial Reviews

Besides filling a gap in the IPE literature, it also provides potential readers, especially scholars, young researchers, policymakers and the interested public, with an assemblage of compelling state-of-the-art reviews of many traditional IPE energy- policy and politics-related themes. Moreover, it provides thoughtful readings on a recently growing literature covering emerging global energy issues that constitute a major global – and still, national – concern of our time.” (Rosana Icassatti Corazza and Paulo Sérgio Fracalanza, Contexto Internacional, Vol. 42 (1), 2020)

“The Palgrave Handbook of the International Political Economy of Energy stands out from the pack. … this book represents an important contribution to the study of global energy policy. … it will prove an invaluable reference not only for scholars of energy seeking greater theoretical rigor, but also for policymakerswho are often left grappling in the dark for the best way to manage energy at the global level given the lack of existing theories and concepts to turn to.” (Christian Downie, global Policy, globalpolicyjournal.com, February, 2018)

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