Handbook on oil and international relations / edited by Roland Dannreuther and Wojciech Ostrowski.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Dannreuther, Roland, editor.

Ostrowski, Wojciech, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International relations.

Oil industries--Political aspects.

Oil industries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (488 pages)

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar Publishing, [2022]

Summary:

This Handbook provides an in-depth analysis of the multiple ways in which oil has shaped, changed and affected international relations and global politics. Theoretically innovative, it provides new insights into the interaction between the materiality of oil and its social, economic and political manifestations.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright

Contents

Contributors

Introduction to the Handbook on Oil and International Relations

PART I: MATERIALITIES OF OIL

1. Oil and international relations: theory, materiality and the political

2. From exploration to consumption: understanding the materialities of oil

3. Oil and the materialities of other energy sources

4. Oil, culture and modernity

5. Oil securitisation: an analysis of oil security discourse and materiality in Azerbaijan

6. Oil, materiality, and interstate war

7. Oil and Asian maritime security in the Indian Ocean

PART II: OIL, POWER AND POLITICAL ORDER

8. The geopolitics of oil: the United States in the twentieth century

9. Russia: oil and revisionist power

10. Middle East: oil and political order

11. Latin America: oil, populism and revolution

12. Africa: oil, colonialism and development

PART III: OIL AND DEVELOPMENT

13. Oil nationalism, decolonization and fragmentation

14. Labour in the making of the international relations of oil: resource nationalism and trade unions

15. Oil, law, temporality and indigenous rights

16. The oil curse: pollution, authoritarianism, corruption, and conflict

17. Oil, global governance and transparency norm proliferation

18. Oil and subsidies

19. Qatar: energy abundance and small powers

PART IV: OIL AND GLOBAL MARKETS

20. International relations and oil: towards a networked power framework of analysis

21. Global capitalism and oil

22. Oil price volatility: cartels, geopolitics and speculation

23. Oil and international institutions

PART V: OIL, SUSTAINABILITY AND THE FUTURE

24. International oil companies, decarbonisation and transition risks

25. The oil transition in a large oil-importing country: the case of China

26. Shale oil and the future of geopolitics.

27. Transition troubles: petrostates, decarbonization, and the geopolitics of peak oil demand

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Dannreuther, Roland Handbook on Oil and International Relations

ISBN:

1-83910-755-3