Syllabus/achievement requirements

Books and compendiums can be bought in Akademika bookstore at Blindern campus. You will need a valid semester card to buy compendiums.

Books

Kuzemko, Caroline, Michael F. Keating and Andreas Goldthau (2015) The Global Energy Challenge. Environment, Development and Security. Palgrave

Szulecki, Kacper (ed.) (2017) Energy Security in Europe. Divergent Perceptions and Policy Challenges. Palgrave.

Compendium

• Bradshaw, Michael (2013) Global Energy Dilemmas, Polity. Ch. 1. Introduction (21pp.)
• Claes, Dag Harald(2001). The Politics of Oil-Producer Cooperation, Boulder: Westview Press. Chapter 7: ‘OPEC a Successful Cartel?’, pp. 239-280.
• Claes, Dag Harald. (2013). ‘Cooperation and Conflict in Oil and Gas Markets’ in Andreas Goldthau, ed.The Handbook of Global Energy Policy. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
• Claes, Dag Harald (2017). “The Scramble for Arctic Oil and Natural Gas” in Timothy C. Lehmann (ed.) The Geopolitics of Global Energy – The New Cost of Plent. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers.
• Fattouh, Bassam (2009). ‘How Secure are Middle East Oil Supply?’ in Andreas Wenger et al. Energy and the Transformation of International Relations. Oxford: Oxford University Press
• Gause, Gregory III (2015b). ‘Oil and Political Mobilization in Saudi Arabia’, in Bernard Haykel et.al. Saudi Arabia in Transition.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
• Mills, Robin M. (2008). The Myth of the Oil Crisis. Westport: Praeger. Ch. 2 and 3, pp. 11-32
• Mitchell, Timothy (2013) Carbon Democracy. Political Power in the age of oil. London: Verso. Ch. 1, 12-42 (30 pp.)
• Mommer, Bernard (2002). Global Oil and the Nation State. Oxford University Press. Ch. 3. pp. 88-106
• Noreng, Øystein (2013). Global Resource Scramble and New Energy Frontiers’ in Andreas Goldthau, ed.The Handbook of Global Energy Policy. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
• Solorio Sandoval, Israel and Francesc Morata (2012) Introduction: the re-evolution of energy policy in Europe, in European Energy Policy - An Environmental Approach, edited by Francesc Morata and Israel Solorio Sandoval, Edward Elgar (21pp.)

Online articles

• Austvik, Ole Gunnar (2012). ‘Landlord and entrepreneur. The shifting roles of the state in Norwegian oil and gas policy’. Governance, 25(2): 315-334. (19 p.)
• Cherp, Aleh and Jessica Jewell, (2014) The concept of energy security: Beyond the four As, Energy Policy 75, pp. 415–421 (6 pp.)
• Ciută, Felix (2010) Conceptual Notes on Energy Security: Total or Banal Security?, Security Dialogue, 41 (2), pp. 123-144 (21pp.)
• Claes, Dag Harald (2015). ‘Geopolitical Implications of US Energy Independence Paper for the Norwegian National Political Science Conference in Oslo, January 2015.
• Colgan, Jeff, Robert O. Keohane, Thijs Van de Graaf (2012) Punctuated Equilibrium in the Energy Regime Complex The Review of International Organizations, vol.: 7, issue: 2, 117-143 (26pp.)
• Emerson, Sarah A.& Andrew C. Winner (2014) ‘The Myth of Petroleum Independence and Foreign Policy Isolation’, The Washington Quarterly, 37:1, 21-34,
• Gause, Greogory III. (2015a). ‘Sultans of Swing? The Geopolitics of Falling Oil Prices. Brookings Policy Briefing, April 2015.
• Glaser, Charles L. (2013). ‘How Oil Influences U.S. National Security’ in International Security. 38(2): 112-146.
• Holden, Steinar (2013). ‘Avoiding the resource curse in the case of Norway’.Energy Policy, 63: 870-876.
• Houthakker, Hendrik (2002). Are Minerals Exhaustible? Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Vol. 42, pp.417-421.
• Hughes, Llewelyn and Phillip Y. Lipscy 2013. ‘The Politics of Energy’ in Annual Review of Political Science. 16: 449-469.
• MacKay, David J.C. (2009) Sustainable energy – without the hot air, Cambridge: UIT. Ch. 1. Motivations (19pp.) and Ch. 2. The Balance Sheet (6pp.)
• Månsson, André (2015) A resource curse for renewables? Conflict and cooperation in the renewable energy sector, Energy Research & Social Science, 10, pp. 1–9 (9pp.)
• Morse, Edward L. 2014. ‘Welcome to the Revolution – Why Shale Is the Next Shale” Foreign Affairs, May/June. 93(3): 3-9.
• Ross, Michael L. (2015) What Have We Learned about the Resource Curse?, American Review of Political Science. 18(1): 239-259.
• Stirling, Andy (2014) Transforming power: Social science and the politics of energy choices, Energy Research & Social Science, 1, 83–95, (13pp.)
• Szulecki, Kacper (2017), Conceptualizing Energy Democracy, Environmental Politics, forthcoming (20 pp.)
• Szulecki, Kacper, Severin Fischer, Anne Therese Gullberg, Oliver Sartor (2015) Shaping the 'Energy Union': between national interests and governance innovation in EU energy and climate policy, Climate Policy, 16(5): 548-567 (18. pp.)
• Van de Graaf,Thijs (2012) Obsolete or resurgent? The International Energy Agency in a Changing Global Landscape Energy Policy, vol.: 48, 233-241 (8pp)
• Van de Graaf, Thijs and Jeff Colgan (2016) Global energy governance: a review and research agenda, Palgrave Communications, 2. (11 pp.)
• Van de Graaf, Thijs, and Aviel Verbruggen (2015) The oil endgame: Strategies of oil exporters in a carbon-constrained world, Environmental Science & Policy 54, 456–462 (7pp.)
• Victor, David G. (2013). ‘National Oil Companies and the Future of the Oil Industry’ in The Annual Review of Resource Economics, 5: 445-462.
• Westphal, Kirsten (2014) Institutional change in European natural gas markets and implications for energy security: Lessons from the German case, Energy Policy, 74, pp. 35–43 (9pp.)

• Online articles are available through the University Library databases.

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• are easy to find. Tutorials and help to access journals and other restricted library Resources.