The Wretched Atom (Jacob Darwin Hamblin, 2021)
Jacob Darwin Hamblin, The Wretched Atom: America’s Global Gamble with Peaceful Nuclear Technology (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2021).
Géopolitique
French energy imperialism in Vietnam and the conquest of Tonkin (1873-1885)
Cet article montre que la conquête française du Vietnam a été entreprise notamment dans l'optique de l’appropriation de ses ressources en charbon, et que l’impérialisme française était dans ce cas un « impérialisme énergétique ».
Alternatives to energy imperialism: Energy and rising economies
Cet article cherche à démontrer que les efforts menés par les économies en croissance rapide pour sécuriser un accès aux ressources énergétiques ainsi que leur contrôle reposent souvent sur des alternatives à un impérialisme énergétique.
Stains of Empire: accumulation by contamination in the Gulf
La découverte du pétrole au Moyen-Orient a contribué à l’éclosion et à l’enrichissement massif du complexe militaro-industriel.
Energy imperialism? Introduction to the special issue
Dans ce numéro spécial, nous réfléchissons aux relations entre systèmes énergétiques et impérialisme à travers différents prismes : le rôle du pétrole dans les relations internationales ; l'économie mondiale et le monde postcolonial ; les déchets créés par l'industrie pétrolière ; les relations e
Transnational capital markets and development policies: the OPEC countries, the Eurocurrency markets, and the LDCs from the 1960s to the 1970s
In the wake of a recent literature in international banking and financial history focused on the role of western commercial banks in placing the OPEC nations' assets with international borrowers, this article examines the role of leading Wall Street American banks in reflowing the investments of
“Jumped on the boat of a territorialist organization”: State and capital at the origins of oil imperialism
Modern imperialism springs from the interaction of the geopolitical and economic logics. The international oil industry offers an ideal case study of this connection. The links between nation states and multinational oil companies have been close and mutually advantageous.
Oil and the Great Powers: Britain and Germany, 1914 to 1945 (Anand Toprani, 2019)
Anand Toprani, Oil and the Great Powers: Britain and Germany, 1914 to 1945 (Oxford University Press, 2019)
Oil, dollars, and US power in the 1970s: re-viewing the connections
Petrodollars – the dollars accumulated by oil-producing countries as revenues for oil exports – are usually considered key to our understanding of the renewal and transformation of US power during the 1970s.
Lost in transition. The world’s energy past, present and future at the 1981 United Nations Conference on New and Renewable Sources of Energy
After four years of preparations, in the summer of 1981 Nairobi hosted the United Nations Conference on New and Renewable Sources of Energy.