Handbook on Oil and International Relations

Edited by Roland Dannreuther Professor of International Relations and Wojciech Ostrowski, Senior Lecturer in International Relations, University of Westminster, UK

• Contents:Introduction to Handbook on Oil and International Relations xviRoland Dannreuther and Wojciech OstrowskiPART I MATERIALITIES OF OIL1 Oil and international relations: theory, materiality and the political 2Roland Dannreuther2 From exploration to consumption: understanding the materialities of oil 16Gavin Bridge and Alexander Dodge3 Oil and the materialities of other energy sources 33Margarita M. Balmaceda4 Oil, culture and modernity 50Caleb Wellum5 Oil securitisation: an analysis of oil security discourse and materialityin Azerbaijan 65Aurora Ganz6 Oil, materiality, and interstate war 78Emily Meierding7 Oil and Asian maritime security in the Indian Ocean 93Christopher LenPART II OIL, POWER AND POLITICAL ORDER8 The geopolitics of oil: the United States in the twentieth century 113Gregory Brew9 Russia: oil and revisionist power 128Richard Sakwa10 Middle East: oil and political order 141Raymond Hinnebusch11 Latin America: oil, populism and revolution 158David Mares12 Africa: oil, colonialism and development 177Nelson Oppong and Kwabena Oteng AcheampongPART III OIL AND DEVELOPMENT13 Oil nationalism, decolonization and fragmentation 190Wojciech Ostrowski14 Labour in the making of the international relations of oil: resourcenationalism and trade unions 206Peyman Jafari15 Oil, law, temporality and indigenous rights 221Suzana Sawyer and Lindsay Ofrias16 The oil curse: pollution, authoritarianism, corruption, and conflict 240Douglas A. Yates17 Oil, global governance and transparency norm proliferation 252Nathan Andrews18 Oil and subsidies 268Subhes C. Bhattacharyya19 Qatar: energy abundance and small powers 282Betul Dogan-AkkasPART IV OIL AND GLOBAL MARKETS20 International relations and oil: towards a networked power frameworkof analysis 301Llewelyn Hughes and Andreas Goldthau21 Global capitalism and oil 315Tim Di Muzio and Matt Dow22 Oil price volatility: cartels, geopolitics and speculation 334Xiaoyi Mu23 Oil and international institutions 354Dag Harald ClaesPART V OIL, SUSTAINABILITY AND THE FUTURE24 International oil companies, decarbonisation and transition risks 370Mathieu Blondeel and Michael Bradshaw25 The oil transition in a large oil-importing country: the case of China 391Philip Andrews-Speed26 Shale oil and the future of geopolitics 407Inwook Kim27 Transition troubles: petrostates, decarbonization, and the geopolitics ofpeak oil demand 425Thijs Van de GraafIndex

‘The Handbook on Oil and International Relations surveys a vast field of scholarship in a manner that is both authoritative and insightful. The contributors, who are some of the top scholars in their respective areas, bring to bear a considerable degree of theoretical sophistication, while their empirical grasp of specific regions is invaluable. This fills a gap in the field and will be read widely.’