This course examines natural resources and particularly important problems in the production of energy supply sources, their distribution and consumption withinin the context of changes and continuties in the world energy market. The course is divided into 3 sections. The first section demonstrates current trends and important actors within the context of geographical distribution of hydrocarbon resources, other energy supply sources in the world energy market and increasing demand for energy. In the second section, current problems are analyzed through the concept of energy security by examining cooperation, rivalry, and conflict among states and non-state actors (multinational energy corporations, international organizations, domestic energy firms, related NGOS) that are questioned by different arguments of IPE theories. In the third section, theoratical arguments are applied to analyze actors' behavior or practices by examining current events and selected cases.
Sources:
o IEA- International Energy Agency, World Energy Outlook Report https://www.iea.org/reports/world-energy-outlook-2023
o IRENA- International Renewable Energy Agency, A New World: The Geopolitics of the Energy Transformation, A New World: The Geopolitics of the Energy Transformation
https://www.irena.org/publications/2019/Jan/A-New-World-The-Geopolitics-of-the-Energy-Transformation
o EIA- US Energy Information Administration, International Energy Statistics
https://www.eia.gov/international/data/world
o Turkey, Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources, Ulusal Enerji Planı, 2022
Required Readings:
• Dunn Hastings, Davis and Mark J.L. McClelland. “Shale gas and the revival of American power: debunking decline?” International Affairs, 89, 6, (2013): 1411-1428.
• Van De Graaf, Thijs and Michael Bradshaw, “Stranded wealth: rethinking the politics of oil in an age of abundance,” International Affairs 94: 6 (2018) 1309–1328.
• Nye, Joseph S. and David A. Welch., Understanding Global Conflict and Cooperation: An Introduction to Theory and History. (Boston, London: Pearson, 2014): 273-281.
• İpek, Pınar, “The Role of Energy Security in Turkish Foreign Policy (2004-2016)”in Turkish Foreign Policy: International Relations, Legality and Global Reach, Pinar Gozen (ed.) Palgrave Macmillan US (2017): pp. 173-194.
• İpek, Pınar, "Turkey's Energy Security in Eurasia: Trade-offs or cognitive bias?" in Turkey's Pivot to Eurasia: Geopolitics and Foreign Policy in a Changing World Order, Seçkin Köstem and Emre Erşen (editors), New York and London: Routledge (2019): pp.129-146.
• Peter Newell. 2018. “Trasformismo or transformation? The global political economy of energy transitions, Review of International Political Economy, DOI: 10.1080/09692290.2018.1511448
• Colgan, Jeff D. “Oil and Revolutionary Governments: Fuel for International Conflict International Organization 64:4 (Fall 2010): 661-694.
• Anatole Boute. “Shaping the Eurasian Gas Market: The Geopolitics of Energy Market Regulation” Geopolitics, 28:5 (2023): 2042-2073.
• Chadwick, Christina M Stoelzel; Long, Andrew G. “Foreign Policy Alignment and Russia’s Energy Weapon” Foreign Policy Analysis 19: 2 (2023): 1-21.
• Skalamera, Morena. “The Geopolitics of Energy after the Invasion of Ukraine,” Washington Quarterly 46: (March):7-24.
• Ulrichsen, Kristian Coates, “Chapter 1- History of Gulf Security Structures, 1903–2003” in Insecure Gulf : The End of Certainty and the Transition to the Post-Oil Era (Oxford University Press, 2011): 15-35.
• Terhalle, Maximilian. “Revolutionary Power and Socialization: Explaining the Persistence of Revolutionary Zeal in Iran’s Foreign Policy.” Security Studies 18, 3 (2009): 557-586.
• Ross, Michael. “Does Oil Hinder Democracy?” World Politics, 53, 3 (2001): 325-361.
• İpek, Pınar. “Oil and Intra-State Conflict in Iraq and Syria: Sub-State Actors and Challenges for Turkey’s Energy Security” Middle Eastern Studies, 53, 3, (2017): 406-419.
• Belgin San-Akca, S. Duygu Sever, Suhnaz Yilmaz. “Does natural gas fuel civil war? Rethinking energy security, international relations, and fossil-fuel conflict” Energy Research & Social Science 70 (2020): 1-12.
• Özgür, Hayriye Kahveci, “Eastern Mediterranean Hydrocarbons: Regional Potential, Challenges Ahead, and the ‘Hydrocarbon-ization’ of the Cyprus Problem,” Perceptions, 12, 2-3 (2017): 31-56.
• İpek, Pınar and Tibet Gür, “Turkey’s Isolation from the Eastern Mediterranean Gas Forum: ideational mechanisms and material interests in Energy Politics” Turkish Studies, 23, 1 (2022): 1-30.
• Milan Babić & Adam D. Dixon. “Decarbonising states as owners.” New Political Economy 28:4 (2023): 608-627.
• Matthew Paterson. ‘The End of the Fossil Fuel Age’? Discourse Politics and Climate Change Political Economy” New Political Economy, 26:6 (2021): 923-936.
• IRENA (2023), Geopolitics of the energy transition: Critical materials, International Renewable Energy Agency, Abu Dhabi.
• Caroline Kuzemko ett al. “Russia’s war on Ukraine, European energy policy responses & implications for sustainable transformations.” Energy Research & Social Science 93 (2022): 102842.
• Mahmood Monshipouri. “The Middle East Post-Petroleum: Averting the Storm” Middle East Policy 17:3 (Fall 2019): 77-91.
• Emre Hatipoglu, Saleh Al Muhanna, Brian Efird. “Renewables and the future of geopolitics: Revisiting main concepts of international relations from the lens of renewables” Russian Journal of Economics 6 (2020): 358–373.
• Michael J. Albert. (2022). “The global politics of the renewable energy transition and the non-substitutability hypothesis: towards a ‘great transformation’? Review of International Political Economy, 29 (5): 1766-1781, DOI: 10.1080/09692290.2021.1980418
• Climate Transparency Report. 2022. “G20 Response to the Energy Crisis: Critical for 1.5C”
• Climate Transparency Report. 2022. Comparing G20 Climate Action: Turkey.