Energy, Capitalism and World Order

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'.

1. Energy, Capitalism and World Order; Tim Di Muzio; Jesse Salah OvadiaPART I: ENERGY, CAPITAL AND INTERNATIONAL THEORY2. IPE and the Unfashionable Problematic of Capital and Energy; Tim Di Muzio3. Reassessing the Crisis: Ecology and Liberal International Relations; Shane Mulligan4. The Political Economy of Trade in the Age of Carbon Energy; Silke Trommer; Tim Di MuzioPART II: ENERGY, CAPITALISM AND THE (RE)MAKING OF WORLD ORDER5. Oil-Backed Capitalist Development in the Global South: A Case of Positive Oil Exceptionalism?; Jesse Salah Ovadia6. A Different Kind of Magic? Oil, Development and the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela; Tom Chodor7. Towards a North American Energy Bloc: the Geopolitical implications of Market Preserving Federalism; Dan Bousfield8. The Political Economy of (Climate) Change: Low Carbon Energy Transitions under Capitalism; Peter NewellPART III: ENERGY, CAPITALISM AND THE 21ST CENTURY9. The Ethanol Boom and Distributional Coalitions in US Agribusiness: Beyond 'Capital in General'; Joseph Baines; David Ravensbergen10. The Unsustainable Nature of Petro-Market Civilization in Canada; Matt Dow11. Fracking into the Future of Petro-Market Civilization; Emma Lee12. Critical IPE, the Open Range and the Illusion of the Epoch; Tim Di Muzio; Jesse Salah Ovadia