[AK.IPO] CfP ECPR Hamburg: Energy Transitions and the Future of Fossil Fuels (4 Panels)

[Andreas Goldthau]

Liebe Kollegen,

anbei ein Call for Papers für insgesamt 4 Panels zu “Energy Transitions and
the Future of Fossil Fuels” auf der ECPR Hamburg. Wir freuen uns über
Papiere zur IPE des Klimawandels, Paris-Abkommen, Stranded Assets und
Transition.



Beste Grüsse,



Andreas Goldthau


Professor Andreas Goldthau

Chair in International Relations

Director, Center of International Public Policy
<https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/cipp>

Royal Holloway University of London

Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, United Kingdom

E: Andreas.Goldthau at rhul.ac.uk | T: @goldthau | P: +44 (0) 1784 414133
<+44%201784%20414133>

My research: https://goo.gl/VQyRo1



Latest publication: *Handbook of International Political Economy of Energy
and Natural Resources
<http://www.e-elgar.com/shop/handbook-of-the-international-political-economy-of-energy-and-natural-resources>*.
Edward Elgar: Cheltenham. 2018 (co-edited with Caroline Kuzemko and Michael
Keating).





*Section: Energy Transitions and the Future of Fossil Fuels*



*Abstract*

Current transitions in global energy markets profoundly affect a wide range
of social, political and economic affairs that shape international politics
and economics. Indeed, the question of an impending energy transition away
from fossil fuels towards a low-carbon economy is fundamental to
understanding many high-profile developments and challenges in contemporary
world politics. This Section will examine issues relating to energy
transitions from a range of theoretical and methodological perspectives
across four thematic Panels. For instance, questions of energy security are
high on the agenda across the world, ranging from the issues regarding the
sources of European natural gas supplies to the future of Chinese oil
imports. The UN Sustainable Development Goals and Paris Agreement renew
pressures on governments, corporations and societies to actively promote a
low-carbon transition. Concerns about fossil fuels becoming ‘stranded
assets’ spur energy companies to adapt to an increasing uncertainty about
demand for their products, and they force oil and gas producing countries
in developing regions to consider the socio-economic impact of permanently
lost export revenues. Taken together these interrelated issues provide a
comprehensive picture of the high stakes and complex challenges involved in
effecting the transition to a low-carbon economy.


*Panel 1) The International Political Economy of Energy Transitions*Panel
Chair: Stefan Andreasson, Queen’s University Belfast

This Panel elaborates on the Section theme of energy transitions and the
current state of scholarly debate on this issue by seeking to investigate
key political and economic drivers of current attempts to achieve a
transition away from fossil fuels towards a low-carbon economy. It examines
how various approaches to International Political Economy account for the
difficulty in understanding the role played by different types of actors in
shaping such a transition, depending on whether emphasis is placed on
governments, corporations or civil society in driving or impeding
transition. Key factors to be considered include the framing and promotion
of competing, and at times complementary, energy transition narratives by
governments, energy companies and civil society respectively in adapting to
a changing energy environment, which in turn highlights the incentives and
impediments that shape the strategies and actions of different sets of
actors. Papers will address these issues from perspective of theories of
IPE, broadly defined.


*Panel 2) The Geopolitics of Energy Security*Panel Chair: Dr Adnan
Vatansever, King’s College London

This Panel examines how energy security has evolved from a concept
concerned, at the level of international politics, with questions of how to
ensure secure supplies of oil and gas, to also include evolving questions
about what types of fuels states, corporations and individuals can expect
to be reliant on over the longer term as the global mix of energy supplies
is being transformed. This transformation relates to concerns about the
impact of fossil fuels on climate change, the emergence of unconventional
sources of energy, the response of major suppliers to shifts in the
energy/climate landscape, and the more traditional issues of how political
and economic relations between suppliers and consumers affect energy
security. Papers will address these issues either from a global perspective
or by means of more focused case studies including, among others, topics
such as the US shale revolution, the EU’s efforts to ensure its energy
security, shifts in Russia’s energy policies, and the future of Chinese
energy demand.


*Panel 3) The Impact of the Paris Agreement*Panel Chair: Professor Andreas
Goldthau, Royal Holloway, University of London

This Panel investigates the aftermath and potential consequences of the
2015 Paris Agreement on mitigating climate change. It considers the
environmental, economic and political viability and sustainability of the
commitments to which the Agreement’s signatories have agreed, and what the
consequences of a successful implementation of the Agreement would mean for
both exporters and consumers of energy. In particular it aims to understand
how the Agreement will affect the shift away from fossil fuels towards
renewable sources of energy and how vested interests, depending on their
perceived interests, will attempt to promote the status quo and established
fossil fuel lock-ins or push for a comprehensive transition towards a
low-carbon economy. Papers can address these issues by focussing on various
aspects of inter-state relations, state-business relations and the role of
civil society in attempting to transform global climate governance and make
the Agreement a viable strategy for a successful energy transition.


*Panel 4) The International Political Economy of Stranded Assets*Panel
Chair: Professor Tina Hunter, University of Aberdeen

The impact of global environmental politics (GEP) and emerging
international organisation of a global anti-climate change movement (GACCM)
have brought a new dimension of uncertainty to the future of the oil and
gas sector. Drawing on the business-politics conundrum this Panel will look
at the phenomenon of ‘stranded assets’ by examining divergence in strategic
approaches and policy choices among key industry players in the North Sea,
Gulf of Mexico and Asia-Pacific to address the phenomenon. ‘Stranded
assets’ are unable to recover their investment cost as intended, thereby
producing a loss of value for investors as well as the states exercising
sovereign rights over such resources. Facilitated by the divestment
movement, the business and politics of stranded assets raise a host of
ethical and moral challenges which are and should be taken seriously as a
new domain of political economy enquiry.



Section Chair: Dr Stefan Andreasson, Queen’s University Belfast
Senior Lecturer in Comparative Politics in the School of History,
Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics, and a Fellow of the Centre for the
Study of Risk and Inequality, Queen’s University Belfast.

Section Co-Chair: Dr Slawomir Raszewski, King’s College London
Senior Research Associate in the European Centre for Energy and Resource
Security; and Senior Lecturer in Oil and Gas Management, School of Business
and Law, UEL.
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