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Monograph Chapter
In Small States in the Modern World
Edited by Harald Baldersheim and Michael Keating
- Published:
- 27 November 2015
Monograph Chapter
In Small States in the Modern World
Edited by Harald Baldersheim and Michael Keating
- Published:
- 27 November 2015
Michael Keating
Modernist social and political theory long predicted the end of territorial differentiation, within the nation-state and then beyond it. Yet territorial politics has, in many ways, become more important in recent decades. This has not produced a new and definitive spatial order but, rather, a rescaling of different economic, social and political systems above and below the state. Understanding these processes requires a constructivist view of territory, not as a fixed, topological concept, but rather as a more open-ended and sociological concept. Regions have emerged as important political spaces across Europe, but they have multiple meanings and spatial forms. The region remains a contested domain and its origins and shape cannot be explained by functional determinism but rather by competition among social and political interests and visions.
Handbook Chapter
In Handbook of Territorial Politics
Edited by Klaus Detterbeck and Eve Hepburn
- Published:
- 31 August 2018
Michael F. Keating
Hydroelectric dams are massively controversial, and the social, economic and environmental backlash against them in the 1990s led to the emergence of new modes of global governance, wherein local social movements and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) formed effective anti-dam alliances with global civil society. This in turn led to the 2000 World Commission on Dams – an attempt to create new, shared norms for establishing systems global governance. However, with the emergence of the 2011 Hydropower Sustainability Assessment Protocol (HSAP), based on corporate social responsibility (CSR), competing norms in effect exist – with conflict between global civil society on the one hand, and states, the hydropower industry and global governance institutions on the other. This conflict revolves around participation – the World Commission on Dams’ (WCD) attempt to ‘mainstream participatory governance’ versus HSAP’s requirements for ‘community engagement’ in the context of involuntary resettlement. The chapter traces the process through which participatory norms were watered down, attempts to institutionalise global governance failed, and civil society itself was weakened.
Handbook Chapter
In Handbook of the International Political Economy of Energy and Natural Resources
Edited by Andreas Goldthau, Michael F. Keating and Caroline Kuzemko
- Published:
- 26 January 2018
Monograph Chapter
In Small States in the Modern World
Edited by Harald Baldersheim and Michael Keating
- Published:
- 27 November 2015
Small States in the Modern World
Vulnerabilities and Opportunities
Edited by Harald Baldersheim and Michael Keating
Caroline Kuzemko, Michael F. Keating and Andreas Goldthau
This chapter makes the case for nexus thinking in the study of the international political economy of energy and resources, that is their inter-dependencies with other policy areas. It argues that it is imperative to go beyond an IPE of ‘just energy’ – rather than treating it as truly ‘discrete’ – to understand energy and resources as part of dynamic inter-relationship with other issue areas. In addition to the ones related to climate change, security and development, nexuses as identified in the chapter include the energy–technology nexus, the energy–water nexus, the energy–food nexus, or the global–local nexus in energy, all of which are increasingly identified within some global and national governance organisations and within recent scholarship. The chapter suggests that from a scholarly point of view this establishes energy as a highly complex, interconnected policy area – both in terms of how energy markets and technical regimes are constituted, their implications for other issue areas, and in terms of the extent to which governance institutions are being designed that stretch across these issue areas. Moreover, the chapter makes the case for the ‘IPE toolkit’ being well equipped to capture energy nexuses in their various forms and shapes. Finally, the chapter lays out the structure and the content of the Handbook.
Handbook Chapter
In Handbook of the International Political Economy of Energy and Natural Resources
Edited by Andreas Goldthau, Michael F. Keating and Caroline Kuzemko
- Published:
- 26 January 2018