Partial hegemony : oil politics and international order /
Colgan, Jeff, 1975-
Partial hegemony : oil politics and international order / Jeffrey Colgan. - 1st Edition. - New York : Oxford University Press, c2021. - vii, 289p ; 22cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"When and why does international order change? Easy to take for granted, international governing arrangements shape our world. They allow us to eat food imported from other countries, live safely from nuclear war, travel to foreign cities, profit from our savings, and much else. New threats, including climate change and simmering US-China hostility, lead many to worry that the "liberal order," or the US position within it, is at risk. Theorists often try to understand that situation by looking at other cases of great power decline, like the British Empire or even ancient Athens. Yet so much is different about those cases that we can draw only imperfect lessons from them. A better approach is to look at how the United States itself already lost much of its international dominance, in the 1970s, in the realm of oil. Only now, with several decades of hindsight, can we fully appreciate it. The experiences of that partial decline in American hegemony, and the associated shifts in oil politics, can teach us a lot about general patterns of international order. Leaders and analysts can apply those lessons when seeking to understand or design new international governing arrangements on topics ranging from climate change to peacekeeping, and nuclear proliferation to the global energy transition"--
9780197546376 9780197546383
2021020442
Hegemony--United States.
International organization.
Petroleum industry and trade--Political aspects--United States.
United States--Foreign relations--20th century.
United States--Foreign relations--21st century.
JZ1480 / .C645 2021
327.1/140973
Partial hegemony : oil politics and international order / Jeffrey Colgan. - 1st Edition. - New York : Oxford University Press, c2021. - vii, 289p ; 22cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"When and why does international order change? Easy to take for granted, international governing arrangements shape our world. They allow us to eat food imported from other countries, live safely from nuclear war, travel to foreign cities, profit from our savings, and much else. New threats, including climate change and simmering US-China hostility, lead many to worry that the "liberal order," or the US position within it, is at risk. Theorists often try to understand that situation by looking at other cases of great power decline, like the British Empire or even ancient Athens. Yet so much is different about those cases that we can draw only imperfect lessons from them. A better approach is to look at how the United States itself already lost much of its international dominance, in the 1970s, in the realm of oil. Only now, with several decades of hindsight, can we fully appreciate it. The experiences of that partial decline in American hegemony, and the associated shifts in oil politics, can teach us a lot about general patterns of international order. Leaders and analysts can apply those lessons when seeking to understand or design new international governing arrangements on topics ranging from climate change to peacekeeping, and nuclear proliferation to the global energy transition"--
9780197546376 9780197546383
2021020442
Hegemony--United States.
International organization.
Petroleum industry and trade--Political aspects--United States.
United States--Foreign relations--20th century.
United States--Foreign relations--21st century.
JZ1480 / .C645 2021
327.1/140973