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Green Power: Geopolitics After Oil

Ryan Hodum, Suarav Jha, C. Ford Runge | World Politics Review | 2010-02-16

This World Politics Review feature examines how the global shift to renewable energy will redraw the geopolitical map. Articles include:

Geopolitics Redrawn: The Changing Landscape of Clean Energy
By Ryan Hodum 16 Feb 2010
A large-scale deployment of clean energy technology is gaining speed on the global stage, causing shifts of significant geopolitical consequence. As clean energy moves from margin to mainstream, it is set to alter the balance of energy security and energy power among key regions of the world. The degree to which frameworks are established so that clean energy drives not just competition, but also cooperation, will be key to determining the impact it ultimately has on international relations.

The Browning of Biofuels: The Political Economy of Policy Failure
By C. Ford Runge 16 Feb 2010
Biofuels were hailed in the first half of the last decade as a green solution to reliance on imported petroleum, and a savior to farmers seeking higher prices for commodities in surplus. But in the second half of the decade, biofuels emerged as real and imminent threats to both environmental quality and food security, while being a costly and ill-conceived response to energy concerns.

The New Nuclear Age Shifts East
By Saurav Jha 16 Feb 2010
Pundits have talked quite a bit of late about the shift from West to East. But the UAE nuclear sweepstakes that recently saw a South Korean consortium walk away with a $40 billion contract demonstrates just how pronounced that shift really is: A Middle Eastern country new to nuclear power sought to secure its nuclear future in an alliance with an Asian nation other than Japan. In addition to being representative of the kind of economic interactions that will increasingly drive the shift Eastward, the deal also foreshadows the coming of a new nuclear age.

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