Energy, Capitalism and World Order

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.

"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)

• 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