Overview

This original, timely and innovative collection is the first to offer critical IPE perspectives on the interconnections between energy, capitalism and the future of world order. The authors discuss the importance of energy for our understanding of the global political economy, climate change and key new developments like 'fracking'.

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Author:   Tim Di Muzio
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   2016 ed.
ISBN:  

9781349559619

ISBN 10:   134955961
Pages:   254
Publication Date:   19 January 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Energy, Capitalism and World Order; Tim Di Muzio; Jesse Salah Ovadia PART I: ENERGY, CAPITAL AND INTERNATIONAL THEORY 2. IPE and the Unfashionable Problematic of Capital and Energy; Tim Di Muzio 3. Reassessing the Crisis: Ecology and Liberal International Relations; Shane Mulligan 4. The Political Economy of Trade in the Age of Carbon Energy; Silke Trommer; Tim Di Muzio PART II: ENERGY, CAPITALISM AND THE (RE)MAKING OF WORLD ORDER 5. Oil-Backed Capitalist Development in the Global South: A Case of Positive Oil Exceptionalism?; Jesse Salah Ovadia 6. A Different Kind of Magic? Oil, Development and the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela; Tom Chodor 7. Towards a North American Energy Bloc: the Geopolitical implications of Market Preserving Federalism; Dan Bousfield 8. The Political Economy of (Climate) Change: Low Carbon Energy Transitions under Capitalism; Peter Newell PART III: ENERGY, CAPITALISM AND THE 21ST CENTURY 9. The Ethanol Boom and Distributional Coalitions in US Agribusiness: Beyond 'Capital in General'; Joseph Baines; David Ravensbergen 10. The Unsustainable Nature of Petro-Market Civilization in Canada; Matt Dow 11. Fracking into the Future of Petro-Market Civilization; Emma Lee 12. Critical IPE, the Open Range and the Illusion of the Epoch; Tim Di Muzio; Jesse Salah Ovadia

Reviews

The book will be helpful for readers in academic fields like development studies, history, geography, international relations, political science, public administration and even sociology. It may also be of interest to practitioners in the energy sector, policy experts, government and the public sector, as well as other experts who want to examine energy and its relationship with capitalism and the future world order through the prism of international political economy. (Donn David P. Ramos, LSE Review of Books, blogs.lse.ac.uk, November, 2016)

Author Information

Tim Di Muzio is Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Studies at the University of Wollongong, Australia. He is the author of The 1% and the Rest of Us, Debt as Power (with Richard Robbins) and Carbon Capitalism: Energy, Social Reproduction and World Order. He edits the Review of Capital as Power. Jesse Salah Ovadia is Lecturer in International Political Economy at Newcastle University, UK. He is the author of The Petro-Developmental State in Africa. His work has been published in numerous academic journals and he is a member of the Editorial Working Group of Review of African Political Economy.

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