Murad Gassanly

A history of international oil politics

theoretical perspectives and case studies

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Produktbeschreibung

A History of International Oil Politics is both an argument for multi-theoretical pluralism and a proposal for a theory-synergetic approach in international relations. Murad Gassanly, a distinguished international relations scholar and rising British politician, explores how international relations paradigms could be utilized in approaching the vital field of international oil politics, specifically historical issues of international energy politics and comparative case studies of energy transmission networks - the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Pipeline and the Southern Gas Corridor. This highly original study explores the historical timeline of global energy to demonstrate how a theory-synergetic analysis might offer a deeper and more holistic understanding. As an academic discipline, international relations now offers a maelstrom of competing epistemological, ontological, and normative contestations. Gassanly, however, argues that theoretical diversity has knowledge-producing and maximizing potential and that pluralism does not impede academic progress. Applying different theoretical models to oil politics reveals different realities, but the synergetic whole is greater than the sum of its constituent paradigmatic parts. Empirical convergences between theoretical accounts provides a broad analytical framework for active theoretical synergy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Academica
• Seitenzahl: 338
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 726g
• ISBN-13: 9781680539448
• ISBN-10: 1680539442
• Artikelnr.: 61964594

Autorenporträt

Murad Gassanly is an energy analyst and researcher of oil and gas politics in the Caspian region. He holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from Cardiff University and is an elected member of the City of Westminster Council, London.