The Politics of Energy Regionalism

2020 ◽  
pp. 171-195
Author(s):  
Kathleen J. Hancock ◽  
Stefano Palestini ◽  
Kacper Szulecki
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Fossil Fuel ◽  
Institutional Design ◽  
Theory Building ◽  
Energy Sources ◽  
Regional Energy ◽  
Electricity Grids ◽  
Fossil Fuel Energy ◽  
Comparative Regionalism

States have increasingly become linked through regional energy-related institutions, markets, infrastructure, and politics. ASEAN, EU, SADC, ECOWAS, Eurasian Union, NAFTA, and UNASUR, inter alia, have formal agreements and institutions covering energy. Renewable, nuclear, and fossil fuel energy sources, as well as pipelines and electricity grids, are all covered in the variety of regional formal and informal arrangements. In parallel, the scholarly body of literature on comparative regionalism is expanding, but generally without energy as a focus area. In a systematic review of eighty-six international relations and politics journals, this chapter finds fifty-two articles over a seventeen-year period linking regions and energy. While scholars are giving more attention to the empirics of energy regionalism, research now needs to turn to more systematic theory building along with comparisons between regions and across energy sources and infrastructure types. The chapter concludes with recommendations for a research agenda that focuses on three sets of questions about drivers, institutional design, and effects.

THE ENERGY–POLLUTION–HEALTH NEXUS: A PANEL DATA ANALYSIS OF LOW- AND MIDDLE-INCOME ASIAN COUNTRIES

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
FARHAD TAGHIZADEH-HESARY ◽  
EHSAN RASOULINEZHAD ◽  
NAOYUKI YOSHINO ◽  
YOUNGHO CHANG ◽  
FARZAD TAGHIZADEH-HESARY ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Fossil Fuel ◽  
Renewable Energy Sources ◽  
Generalized Method Of Moments ◽  
Energy Sources ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Fossil Fuel Energy ◽  
Fossil Fuel Energy Consumption ◽  
Low And Middle Income

Increased consumption of nonrenewable energy sources may lead to more air pollution, resulting in negative health impacts in a society. The main purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between fossil fuel energy consumption and health issues using generalized method of moments estimation technique for data from 18 Asian countries (both low- and middle-income) over the period 1991–2018. The findings demonstrate that fossil fuel energy consumption increases the risk of lung and respiratory diseases. In addition, the results demonstrate the significant effect of CO2 emissions and fossil fuel consumption on undernourishment and death rates. Furthermore, we find that increases in the gross domestic product per capita and healthcare expenditure may help reduce undernourishment and death ratio. The conclusion recommends that diversification of energy in low- and middle-income countries from too much reliance on fossil fuels to more renewable energy sources can improve energy insecurity, at the same time reduce greenhouse gas emissions and minimize the negative impacts on human health.

scholarly journals Are The Cop21 Objectives Implementable?

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Erik Lane
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Policy Implementation ◽  
Fossil Fuel ◽  
Implementation Process ◽  
Energy Sources ◽  
Positive Rate ◽  
Policy Analysts ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Fossil Fuel Energy

Policy implementation is often difficult to achieve, especially in a heavily decentralised structure, policy analysts like Wildavsky & Sabatier suggested. Now, the international community is going to guide a large number of governments or states towards the accomplishment of the COP21 objectives, although no governance mechanisms have yet been set up or identified. The implementation process for the COP21 Agreement must now start in order to have any chance of succeeding with its main objective of a 40% reduction in CO2 emissions until 2030. Actually, this process of implementation is expected to go on for the entire century, as COP21 promises a carbon free economy sometime after 2050. I argue that it is likely that many governments will only deliver small changes in emission decreases, but keep enough fossil fuel energy sources in order to maintain some positive rate of economic growth. Complete decarbonisation of entire societies is a figment of Sachs’ imagination concerning “sustainable development”. Thee management tasks in relation to the fulfilment of the COP21 goals are mindboggling.

The place of Africa in international relations: the centrality of the margins in Global IR

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Luca Raineri ◽  
Edoardo Baldaro
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
International System ◽  
Theory Building ◽  
The West ◽  
General Validity ◽  
Realist Approach ◽  
The Core ◽  
And Function ◽  
The Way

Abstract The Global IR research agenda lays emphasis on the marginalised, non-Western forms of power and knowledge that underpin today's international system. Focusing on Africa, this article questions two fundamental assumptions of this approach, arguing that they err by excess of realism – in two different ways. First, the claim that Africa is marginal to international relations (IR) thinking holds true only as long as one makes the whole of IR discipline coincide with the Realist school. Second, the Global IR commitment to better appreciate ‘non-Western’ contributions is ontologically realist, because it fails to recognise that the West and the non-West are dialectically constitutive of one another. To demonstrate this, the article first shows that Africa has moved from the periphery to the core of IR scholarship: in the post-paradigmatic phase, Africa is no longer a mere provider of deviant cases, but a laboratory for theory-building of general validity. In the second part, the Sahel provides a case for unsettling reified conceptions of Africa's conceptual and geographical boundaries through the dialectical articulation of the inside/outside dichotomy. Questioning the ‘place’ of Africa in IR – both as identity and function – thus paves the way to a ‘less realist’ approach to Global IR.

scholarly journals Analysis of the Lithuanian renewable energy resources legal framework

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 31-45
Author(s):  
Jaunius Jatautas ◽  
Andrius Stasiukynas
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Fossil Fuel ◽  
Renewable Energy Sources ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Energy Resources ◽  
Energy Sources ◽  
Renewable Energy Resources ◽  
Effective Development ◽  
Fossil Fuel Energy

Effective development of the legal framework promotes the production of energy from renewable energy sources (RES) that provide an alternative to fossil fuel energy and environmental protection. According to these provisions, the article performs content analysis of the Lithuanian RES legal framework and discloses regulatory grounds and barriers to RES development

scholarly journals Solid-State Hydrogen Storage for a Decarbonized Society

Hydrogen ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 428-443
Author(s):  
Claudio Pistidda
Keyword(s):  
Solid State ◽  
Hydrogen Storage ◽  
Fossil Fuels ◽  
Fossil Fuel ◽  
Renewable Energy Sources ◽  
Energy Sources ◽  
Hydrogen Storage Materials ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Fossil Fuel Energy ◽  
State Form

Humanity is confronted with one of the most significant challenges in its history. The excessive use of fossil fuel energy sources is causing extreme climate change, which threatens our way of life and poses huge social and technological problems. It is imperative to look for alternate energy sources that can replace environmentally destructive fossil fuels. In this scenario, hydrogen is seen as a potential energy vector capable of enabling the better and synergic exploitation of renewable energy sources. A brief review of the use of hydrogen as a tool for decarbonizing our society is given in this work. Special emphasis is placed on the possibility of storing hydrogen in solid-state form (in hydride species), on the potential fields of application of solid-state hydrogen storage, and on the technological challenges solid-state hydrogen storage faces. A potential approach to reduce the carbon footprint of hydrogen storage materials is presented in the concluding section of this paper.

scholarly journals Bad Gains: Effects of Fossil Fuel Energy on Africa

2020 ◽  
pp. 25-33
Author(s):  
Enongene Rex Nkumbe
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Fossil Fuels ◽  
Fossil Fuel ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Energy Sources ◽  
Oil Resources ◽  
Cultural Implications ◽  
Fossil Fuel Energy

Energy is indispensable to global economic development and human development. Through the course of history, different energy sources have been used to fuel economic growth and better human life. The fossil economy fuelled unprecedented economic growth that was not possible with previous energy epochs. The development brought about by fossil fuels has not been beneficial for all and this paper argues that fossil fuel energy sources; specifically oil and gas have had more of negative political and socio-cultural implications for Africa. Using secondary data sources from books, articles and reports, the study finds out that oil resources have helped is sustaining dictatorships and socioeconomic hardship in oil producing countries in Africa.

scholarly journals Character and transformation of pollutants from major fossil fuel energy sources

1977 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. S. Shriner ◽  
S. B. McLaughlin ◽  
C. F. Baes
Keyword(s):  
Fossil Fuel ◽  
Energy Sources ◽  
Fossil Fuel Energy

From meditation to action – a research agenda for studying informal global rule-making: remarks on ‘Cosmopolitanism, publicity, and the emergence of a “global administrative law”’

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Oliver Westerwinter
Keyword(s):  
Global Governance ◽  
Comparative Research ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Institutional Design ◽  
Administrative Law ◽  
Democratic Legitimacy ◽  
Institutional Architecture ◽  
Global Law ◽  
Rule Making ◽  
Law Making

Abstract Friedrich Kratochwil engages critically with the emergence of a global administrative law and its consequences for the democratic legitimacy of global governance. While he makes important contributions to our understanding of global governance, he does not sufficiently discuss the differences in the institutional design of new forms of global law-making and their consequences for the effectiveness and legitimacy of global governance. I elaborate on these limitations and outline a comparative research agenda on the emergence, design, and effectiveness of the diverse arrangements that constitute the complex institutional architecture of contemporary global governance.

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