Trasformismo or transformation? The global political economy of energy transitions

By P. Newell. Review of International Political Economy, 2018

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Abstract What does IPE have to contribute to pressing policy and academic debates about the urgently required transition to a low carbon global economy? Despite the obviously global, political and economic dimensions of such a transition, insights from IPE have yet to be brought to bear on the question of what form such a transition might take: the relations of power which will frustrate or enable it; the historical precedents for previous transformations in dominant structures of production, finance and technology in the global economy; and the potentially central role of the state and institutions of global governance. This article seeks to contribute to the analysis of transitions grounded in different strands of literature from neo-Gramscian and historical materialist IPE and political economy more broadly. It focuses, in turn, on the role of the state in transitions; the ways in which the globalization of the global economy structures the possibility and likely form of transitions; and the role of global governance institutions in key energy and economic domains. It calls for energy to take up its rightful place as a lens for understanding and revising orthodox comprehensions of political, economic and social processes.

Subfields: Finance, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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The political economy of coal in Poland: Drivers and barriers for a shift away from fossil fuels (2020, unknown): “…economy perspective to understand the particularities of the Polish situation (see also Newell and Paterson (1998), Levy and Newell (2002) and Newell (2018)), and nevertheless include technology developments and the country specific societal context as relevant influencing factors of…”
New energy spaces: Towards a geographical political economy of energy transition (2020, background): “…of energy transition Socio-technical approaches to energy transition have had something of a political blind spot, downplaying the plural, messy and contested character of its constituent processes (Ahlborg, 2018; Avelino et al., 2016; Baker et al., 2014; Meadowcroft, 2009; Newell, 2019).”
Fossilised Capital: Price and Profit in the Energy Transition (2021, background): “The predominant research themes have been the role of the state and of vested industry interests in enabling or frustrating the transition (e.g. Breetz et al. 2018; Newell 2019; Hochstetler 2021).”