Programme

The course will focus on the political history of energy and on the environmental consequences of the emergence of different energy regimes from the beginning of the 20th Century to the present time.

Core Documentation

For "non frequentanti" (3 books):

1. Textbook:
- Bruce Podobnik, "Global Energy Shifts. Fostering Sustainability in a Turbulent Age"

2. One book among the following:
- Giuliano Garavini, "The Rise and Fall of OPEC in the 20th Century"
- Adam Hanieh, "Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market"
- Stephen G. Gross, "Energy and Power: Germany in the Age of Oil, Atoms, and Climate Change"
- Brett Christophers, "The Price is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won't Save the Planet"

3. Van De Graaf/Sovacool, "Global Energy Politics"

Reference Bibliography

Ibrahim AlMuhanna, "Oil Leaders: An Insider's Account of Four Decades of Saudi Arabia and OPEC's Global Energy Policy" Ervand Abrahamian, "Oil Crisis in Iran: From Nationalism to Coup d'Etat" Kate Aronoff, "Overheated: How Capitalism Broke the Planet - and How We can Fight Back" Gretchen Bakke, "The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future" J.H. Bamberg, "The History of the British Petroleum Company", Vol.1, Vol2 Basosi/Garavini/Trentin, "Counter-Shock: the Oil Counter-Revolution of the 1980s" Javier Blas and Jack Farchy, "The World for Sale. Money, power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth's Resources" Brett Christophers, "The Price is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won't Save the Planet" Dag Harald Claes, "The Politics of Oil" Jean Baptiste Fressoz, "Sans Transition. Une nouvelle histoire de l'energie" Manucher and Roxane Farmanfarmaian, "Blood and Oil: Memoirs of a Persian Prince" Giuliano Garavini, "The Rise and Fall of OPEC in the 20th Century" Stephen Gross, "Energy and Power: Germany in the Age of Oil, Atoms and Climate Change" Nicholas Georgescu-Rogan, "Energy and Economc Myths" Amitav Ghosh, "The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable" Thane Gustafson, "The Bridge: Natural Gas in a Redivided Europe" Adam Hanieh, "Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market" Michael Herb, "The Wages of Oil. Parliaments and Economic Development in Kuwait and the UAE" Jason Hickel, "Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World" Per Hogselius, "Red Gas" William Stanley Jevons, "The Coal Question" Daniel Yergin, "The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power" Naomi Klein, "This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate" Leonardo Maugeri, "Beyond the Age of Oil: The Myths, Realities, and Future of Fossil Fuels and Their Alternatives" Paasha Mahdavi, "Power Grab. Political Survival through Extractive Resource Nationalization" Andreas Malm, "Fossil Capital. The Rise of the Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming" Andreas Malm. "How to Blow Up a Pipeline" Victor McFarland, "Oil Powers: A History of the US-Saudi Alliance" Bernard Mommer, "Global Oil and the Nation State" Bernard Mommer, "Ressources Naturelles et mondialisation: le pétrole et le Venezuela" Bethany McLean, "The Smartest Guys in the Room. The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron" Timothy Mitchell, "Carbon Democracy. Political Power in the Age of Oil" Guillaume Pitron, "the Rare Metals War: the Dark Side of Clean Energy and Digital Technologies" Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonzo, "The Oil Pentagon" Simon Pirani, "Burning Up: A Global History of Fossil Fuels Consumption" Joachim Radkau, "The Age of Ecology: A Global History" Thea Riofrancos, "Resource Radicals. From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador" Henry Sanderson "Volt Rush: The Winners and Losers in the Race to Go Green" Myrna Santiago, "The Ecology of Oil. Environment, Labour and the Mexican Revolution, 1900-1938" Van De Graaf/ Sovacoool, "Global Enegy Politics" Robert Vitalis, "America's Kingdom. Mythmaking on the Saudi Oil Frontier" Tyler Volk, "CO2 Raising: The World's Greatest Environmental Challenge" William Stanley Jevons, "The Coal Question" Daniel Yergin, "The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power" Naomi Klein, "This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate" Leonardo Maugeri, "Beyond the Age of Oil: The Myths, Realities, and Future of Fossil Fuels and Their Alternatives" Paasha Mahdavi, "Power Grab. Political Survival through Extractive Resource Nationalization" Andreas Malm, "Fossil Capital. The Rise of the Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming" Andreas Malm. "How to Blow Up a Pipeline" Victor McFarland, "Oil Powers: A History of the US-Saudi Alliance" Bernard Mommer, "Global Oil and the Nation State" Bethany McLean, "The Smartest Guys in the Room. The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron" Timothy Mitchell, "Carbon Democracy. Political Power in the Age of Oil" Jeronim Perovic, "Fuel and Power: Energy, Trade and Russian Foreign Relations from Lenin to Putin" Guillaume Pitron, "the Rare Metals War: the Dark Side of Clean Energy and Digital Technologies" Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonzo, "The Oil Pentagon" Simon Pirani, "Burning Up: A Global History of Fossil Fuels Consumption" Joachim Radkau, "The Age of Ecology: A Global History" Thea Riofrancos, "Resource Radicals. From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador" Daniela Russ and Thomas Turnbull, "Energy's History. Toward a Global Canon" Henry Sanderson "Volt Rush: The Winners and Losers in the Race to Go Green" Myrna Santiago, "The Ecology of Oil. Environment, Labour and the Mexican Revolution, 1900-1938" Van De Graaf/ Sovacoool, "Global Energy Politics" Robert Vitalis, "Oilcraft: The Myths of Scarcity and Security That Haunt US Energy Policy" Tyler Volk, "CO2 Raising: The World's Greatest Environmental Challenge"

Attendance

Compulsory

Type of evaluation

- Each student will volunteer for one presentation; - Each student will prepare for the end of the class an essay (2500 words max) that might also be on the same topic as his class presentation. - The final exam will be an oral exam. Exams: Presentation and class participation: 25% Essay: 25% Final exam: 50% Total: 100%