
The Energy Security Paradox
Rethinking Energy (In)security in the United States and China
Jonna Nyman(Author)
Oxford University Press
Published on 5. April 2018
Book
Hardback
192 pages
978-0-19-882044-4 (ISBN)
Description
The decisions we make about energy shape our present and our future. From geopolitical tension to environmental degradation and an increasingly unstable climate, these choices infiltrate the very air we breathe. Energy security politics has direct impact on the continued survival of human life as we know it, and the earth cannot survive if we continue consuming fossil energy at current rates. The low carbon transition is simply not happening fast enough, and change is unlikely without a radical change in how we approach energy security. But thinking on energy security has failed to keep up with these changing realities. Energy security is primarily considered to be about the availability of reliable and affordable energy supplies - having enough energy - and it remains closely linked to national security.
The Energy Security Paradox looks at contemporary energy security politics in the United States and China: the top two energy consumers and producers. Based on in-depth empirical analysis, it demonstrates that current energy security practices actually lead to a security paradox: they produce insecurity. To illustrate this, it develops the 'energy security paradox' as a framework for understanding the interconnected insecurities produced by current practices. However, it also goes beyond this, examining resistance to current practices to highlight that we not only can do energy security differently: this is already happening. In the process, the volume demonstrates that the value of security depends on the context. Based on this, The Energy Security Paradox proposes a radical reconsideration of how we approach and practice energy security.
The Energy Security Paradox looks at contemporary energy security politics in the United States and China: the top two energy consumers and producers. Based on in-depth empirical analysis, it demonstrates that current energy security practices actually lead to a security paradox: they produce insecurity. To illustrate this, it develops the 'energy security paradox' as a framework for understanding the interconnected insecurities produced by current practices. However, it also goes beyond this, examining resistance to current practices to highlight that we not only can do energy security differently: this is already happening. In the process, the volume demonstrates that the value of security depends on the context. Based on this, The Energy Security Paradox proposes a radical reconsideration of how we approach and practice energy security.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 243 mm
Width: 165 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
446 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-882044-4 (9780198820444)
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Rethinking Energy (In)security in the United States and China
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Dr Jonna Nyman is Leverhulme Trust Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Politics at the University of Sheffield. Her research interests centre around the politics and ethics of security, broadly conceived, with a focus on energy security. She has published articles in Review of International Studies, Millennium: Journal of International Studies, the Journal of International Relations and Development, and WIREs Climate Change, and has published a co-edited volume titled Ethical Security Studies: A New Research Agenda (with Anthony Burke, Routledge, 2016).
Author
Leverhulme Postdoctoral FellowLeverhulme Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Sheffield
Content
1: Introducing the Energy Security Paradox
2: Understanding Energy (In)security
3: 'Common Sense' Energy Security in the United States
4: Contesting Energy Security in the United States
5: 'Common Sense' Energy Security in China
6: Contesting Energy Security in China
7: Conclusion: Re-imagining Energy Security
2: Understanding Energy (In)security
3: 'Common Sense' Energy Security in the United States
4: Contesting Energy Security in the United States
5: 'Common Sense' Energy Security in China
6: Contesting Energy Security in China
7: Conclusion: Re-imagining Energy Security