After the Fall

Energy Security, Sustainable Development, and the Environment

Bruce Bagley, Suzanne Loftus, Hanna Samir Kassab, Dina Moulioukova

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2018
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781498586627
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: International Relations
• Index: Politics & International Relations

This edited volume examines the impacts of the 2014-2015 decline in the price of oil. Participants will examine the economic, social and political consequences on states and regions, along with their responses. The following questions will be examined: what were the impacts for countries experiencing an energy revolution in shale and gas like the United States and Canada? What were the repercussions of the collapse on other states of the Western hemisphere dependent on oil for growth and development; countries like Colombia, Venezuela and Mexico? Were these outcomes similar to those experiences in other parts of world like Nigeria, Russia and other petro-producing countries? How do developing countries intend to cope with such drastic and sudden exogenous economic shock? Will there be any benefits for energy poor, consumer countries like China, India and European Union member states? Related to these issues are sustainable developmental questions and concerns about the environment. Will cheap oil force other alternative and renewable energy technologies out of the market given lack of competitiveness? Finally, the volume's chapters will discuss prospects for governance in the new oil environment.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction
• 1 Caribbean Energy Outlook Anthony T. Bryan
• 2 Transitioning to Clean Energy in Central America Christian Gómez, Jr.
• 3 Will Argentina Go the Way of Venezuela? Gonzalo Molina
• 4 Commodity Crisis in Colombia: A Reform Catalyst for an Exhausted Development Model Andrés Cala Campo
• 5 After the Fall of Petrobras: Too Big to Fail? Energy Policy in Brazil Afterward Marcelo Rocha e Silva Zorovich
• 6 Sustainable Agriculture Landscapes for Production of Biofuels in Brazil José Maria Cardoso da Silva and Luis Cláudio Fernandes Barbosa
• 7 The European Union and Climate Change: The Post-COP21 World Maxime H. A. Larivé
• 8 China’s Activities in the Petroleum, Renewable Energy, and Transmission Sectors of Latin America and the Caribbean R. Evan Ellis
• 9 Chinese Oil Investments in Peru and Ecuador: Social Responsibility, Host Government Regulations, and Host Civil Society Wenyuan Wu
• 10 The Fall of Energy Prices and Aggressive Foreign Policy: The Case of Russia Dina Moulioukova
• 11 Oil Political Stability, and the Middle East: Fiscal Crisis, Geopolitical Standoffs, and Transitioning to a New World Order Herbert Reginbogin
• 12 Twilight Kingdom? Saudi Arabia and the American Challenge Between Shale and Shi’ism Bradford R. McGuinn
• 13 Opposing Extractivism: Social Movements for Rights and Sustainability Laura Carlsen
• 14 Systemic Transformations and Energy: The BRICS’ New Development Bank and the Declining Relevance of OPEC Hanna Samir Kassab
• Conclusion
• About the Contributors