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The International Political Economy of Oil and Gas / Slawomir Raszewski, ed. Palgrave, 2018, 300 p. - eBook $129.00 ; Hardcover $169.00https://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9783319625560This book addresses energy research from four distinct International Political Economy perspectives: energy security, governance, legal and developmental areas. Energy is too important to be neglected by political scientists. Yet, within the mainstream of the discipline energy research still remains a peripheral area of academic enquiry seeking to plug into the discipline’s theoretical debates. The purpose of this book is to assess how existing perspectives fit with our understanding of social science energy research by focusing on the oil and gas dimension.Contents : Redefining Energy Security: The New Prize in a Time of Arctic Petroleum Resources and Technological Development / Tina Hunt The Political Economy of Energy in Russia / Peter Rutland The Political Economy of Oil: The Limits of Our Ability to Prevent Failure / Jose A. Bolanos Natural Gas, US Shale Dynamics and Energy Security: A View from the European Union / Rafael Leal-Arcas pdf The Australian LNG Industry: Legal and Commercial Challenges / Penelope Crossley pdf Converging Energy Governance in Mature Petroleum Provinces: Political, Legal and Economic Dimensions in Governing Mature Petroleum Fields in the North Sea / Tina Hunter Emerging Frontiers of Energy Exploration in Post-boom Africa / Stefan Andreasson Brazil’s Management of Oil and Gas: State Centrism Versus Liberalism / Nascimento Lira,  Augusto Flávio The (New) Political Economy of Oil and Gas: The Implications of the Changing Dominant Paradigm of International Energy Development / Andrey A. Konoplyanik Conclusion: Transitioning from the ‘Old’ to the ‘New’ Political Economy of Oil and Gas / Slawomir Raszewski