Jeff Colgan (Brown)
Partial Hegemony: Oil Politics and International Order
Chapter 1.
Abstract
My objectives in this book are three-fold. First, I explain global oil politics over the last century, informed by a new theoretical perspective. If this book does nothing else, I hope it does that. Second, I develop some new ideas about international order, which apply quite generally. My third goal is perhaps the most difficult: I seek to apply those new ideas prescriptively to the issue of climate change. Arguably the twenty-first century’s greatest global challenge, climate change is intimately tied up with questions of energy and international order.