The International Political Economy of Oil and Gas

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This book addresses energy research from four distinct International Political Economy perspectives: energy security, governance, legal and developmental areas. Energy is too important to be neglected by political scientists. Yet, within the mainstream of the discipline energy research still remains a peripheral area of academic enquiry seeking to plug into the discipline’s theoretical debates. The purpose of this book is to assess how existing perspectives fit with our understanding of social science energy research by focusing on the oil and gas dimension. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxi Introduction (Slawomir Raszewski)....Pages 1-6 Front Matter ....Pages 7-7 Redefining Energy Security: The New Prize in a Time of Arctic Petroleum Resources and Technological Development (Tina Hunter)....Pages 9-21 The Political Economy of Energy in Russia (Peter Rutland)....Pages 23-39 European Gas Supply Security: Explaining the EU External Gas Pipeline Choices (Alexandra-Maria Bocse)....Pages 41-56 The Political Economy of Oil: The Limits of Our Ability to Prevent Failure (Jose A. Bolanos)....Pages 57-70 Front Matter ....Pages 71-71 Natural Gas, US Shale Dynamics and Energy Security: A View from the European Union (Rafael Leal-Arcas)....Pages 73-85 The Rise and Limits of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (Wojciech Ostrowski)....Pages 87-107 Oil and Gas Political Economy in Central Asia: The International Perspective (Paolo Sorbello)....Pages 109-124 Nascent Gas Markets in the Era of Low Oil Prices: The Challenges and Opportunities of Energy Security in Southeast Asia (Younkyoo Kim)....Pages 125-136 Front Matter ....Pages 137-137 The Australian LNG Industry: Legal and Commercial Challenges (Penelope Crossley)....Pages 139-154 Converging Energy Governance in Mature Petroleum Provinces: Political, Legal and Economic Dimensions in Governing Mature Petroleum Fields in the North Sea (Tina Hunter)....Pages 155-174 Iran’s Post-sanctions Oil and Gas Management (Kalina K. Damianova)....Pages 175-192 Front Matter ....Pages 193-193 Emerging Frontiers of Energy Exploration in Post-boom Africa (Stefan Andreasson)....Pages 195-208 Brazil’s Management of Oil and Gas: State Centrism Versus Liberalism (Flávio Augusto Lira Nascimento)....Pages 209-224 Shale Gas Development and Environmental Governance in China (Meiyu Guo, Yuan Xu)....Pages 225-239 The (New) Political Economy of Oil and Gas: The Implications of the Changing Dominant Paradigm of International Energy Development (Andrey A. Konoplyanik)....Pages 241-278 Conclusion: Transitioning from the ‘Old’ to the ‘New’ Political Economy of Oil and Gas (Slawomir Raszewski)....Pages 279-284 Back Matter ....Pages 285-300