New directions in the international political economy of energy. Issue 1 (2nd January 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Kuzemko, Caroline; Lawrence, Andrew; Watson, Matthew
• Is Part Of: Review of international political economy. Volume 26:Issue 1(2019)
• Page Start: 1
• Page End: 24
• Publication Date: 2019-01-02
• Subjects: Energy -- climate change -- development -- scale -- technology -- fossil fuels -- low carbon transitions; International economic relations -- Periodicals; International finance -- Periodicals; International relations -- Periodicals; 330.9
• DOI: 10.1080/09692290.2018.1553796
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0969-2290

Abstract

Abstract: Until relatively recently international political economy (IPE) scholarship on energy has tended to focus on oil, rather than energy understood in its full, current diversity through IPE's tripartite liberal, realist or critical lenses. Over the past decade or so there have, however, been far-reaching transformations in the global economy, not least in response to the increased recognition, and visibility, of damaging manifestations of fossil fuel usage and human-induced climate change. In the light of such changes this article, and the special section as a whole, represents a distinctive departure from earlier IPE of energy traditions by collectively deepening our understanding of how the IPE of energy is changing: in scalar, material, distributional and political terms. An appeal is made for greater engagement by IPE scholars with energy, given its wide-ranging relevance to debates about climate change, development, technology and equity and justice.