Current oil (dis)order: players, scenarios, and mechanisms

Palazuelos, Enrique

doi:10.1017/s0260210511000039

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“…Se trata más bien una nube de diferentes disposiciones y arreglos institucionales que se ocupan de los diversos aspectos de la gobernanza energética global. La energía se gobierna de manera fragmentada (piecemeal) y sobre todo mediante respuestas ad-hoc (Florini y Sovacool, 2009;Palazuelos, 2012) .…”

Section: Una Gobernanza Energética Fragmentadaunclassified

Fragmentación y cooperación en la gobernanza energética global

Escribano¹

2020

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This article addresses energy interdependency and global energy governance from an international political economy perspective. It starts by describing the fragmented nature of energy governance and the trend towards increased interpolarity. It also explains why hegemony is bounded by the interplay of the myriad of dedicated international energy regimes, stating that they conform an ‘energy regime complex’ rather than a single international energy regime. Finally, the paper analyses the institutional evolution of the energy regime complex, trying to assess the impact of ideational, material capabilities and international energy institutions’ in global energy governance.

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Section: Una Gobernanza Energética Fragmentadaunclassified

Fragmentación y cooperación en la gobernanza energética global

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2020

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“…Some scholars have highlighted the potential added value of the field of International Political Economy (IPE) in understanding the interaction of politics and the economy (Kuzemko et al, 2012). Palazuelos (2012), for example, develops a framework consisting of players, scenarios, and exchange mechanisms. This effort is laudable in that it gives equal standing to states and energy firms as well as to (political) institutionalization and market mechanisms.…”

Section: First Limitation: Unclear Relation Between States and Marketsmentioning

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“…Hancock and Vivoda, 2014). Scholars have recently tried to enrich the conceptual toolbox of global energy studies by referring to global governance (Goldthau and Witte, 2010; Lesage et al, 2010), regime complexes (Colgan et al, 2011; Van de Graaf, 2013), complexity theory (Cherp et al 2011), and international political economy (Kuzemko et al, 2012; Palazuelos, 2012). From a sociological, social theory perspective, however, these attempts remain limited.…”

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Luhmann, Latour and global petroleum governance

Richert

2018

European Journal of Social Theory

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Global energy studies have produced a flurry of empirical analyses. However, the amount of theoretical reflection on the topic remains comparatively low. This article takes two specific limitations of the literature as its starting point: First, the often-unclear relationship between states and markets in global energy governance, and, second, the concept of energy as a material and external structure. With the aim of providing more nuanced perspectives on these issues, the article turns to the work of Niklas Luhmann and Bruno Latour. Luhmann’s ideas of functional differentiation and structural coupling provide a new look at the interaction of states and markets. Latour’s symmetric anthropology allows us to rethink energy as a hybrid that is in the midst of instead of outside society. While these thinkers provide interesting ways forward for global energy studies, they also appear to be utterly incompatible. Instead of accepting this incompatibility, however, the article uses the tension between Luhmann and Latour’s work as a productive resource for further reflection on global energy governance. It develops a ‘Luhtourian’ approach, arguing that hybrid, issue-specific governance systems can emerge whenever a resistant hybrid instigates the emergence of symbolically generalized governance objects.

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“…Applying these IPE approaches to the study of oil relations, Palazuelos () has developed an ‘oil model’ which we now apply to an analysis of the European gas markets. Each model has three components: players (P), geographical scenarios (S) and exchange mechanisms (M).…”

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“…This means that, according to Palazuelos (), a P‐S‐M energy model is defined by the way players (P) interact shaping scenarios (S) and mechanisms (M). Therefore, it is first necessary to identify who the main players are, and then what power sources they have, as well as the intensity and nature (relational or structural) of this power.…”

Section: Political Economy Approach For the European Gas Modelmentioning

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A Political Economy Approach to the European Union Gas Model: Continuities and Changes

Fernández

Palazuelos

2014

J of Common Market Studies

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The European Union gas model worked steadily for nearly four decades: since the time that gas first emerged as an important resource in European energy demand. However, since the late 1990s this stability has been disrupted by a number of factors. The EU reform agenda has been the most important of these. Following a structural‐conduct‐performance plan, the European Commission has forced changes on players, scenarios and exchange mechanisms through legislative action in order to build a new energy model based on those operating in the United States and the United Kingdom. The main point of this article is that despite these actions, many features of the traditional model have been modified but not removed, and many changes have not brought the results initially expected. These results are mainly due to the fact that the power relations among the main players of the pre‐reform model are still in place.

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Current oil (dis)order: players, scenarios, and mechanisms

Cited by 8 publications

References 18 publications

Fragmentación y cooperación en la gobernanza energética global

Fragmentación y cooperación en la gobernanza energética global

Luhmann, Latour and global petroleum governance

A Political Economy Approach to the European Union Gas Model: Continuities and Changes

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