The transnational politics of energy

Daedalus

Volumn 142, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 97-109

  Keohane, Robert O ^a   Victor, David G ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 84871787038     PISSN: 00115266     EISSN: 15486192     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/DAED_a_00196     Document Type: Article

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2. Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions: A Roadmap for Moving to a Competitive Low Carbon Economy in 2050 (Brussels: European Commission, August 3, 2011).
3. Statistical Review of World Energy 2011 (London: bp, 2011).
4. World Energy Outlook 2011 (Paris: International Energy Agency, 2011).
5. Robert O. Keohane, After Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World Political Economy (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1984).
6. Robert Axelrod, The Evolution of Cooperation (New York: Basic Books, 1984).
7. G-20, Leaders' Statement: The Pittsburgh Summit, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, September 24-25, 2009, http://www.canadainternational.gc.ca/g20/index.aspx?lang=eng&view=d.
8. Rahul Tongia, "The Political Economy of Indian Power Sector Reforms," in The Political Economy of Power Sector Reform: The Experiences of Five Major Developing Countries, ed. David G. Victor and Thomas C. Heller (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007), 109-174
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10. David G. Victor, Untold Billions: Fossil-Fuel Subsidies, Their Impacts and the Path to Reform-The Politics of Fossil-Fuel Subsidies (Geneva: Global Subsidies Initiative of the International Institute for Sustainable Development, October 2009).
11. For a general discussion of this point with respect to international institutions, see Keohane, After Hegemony.
12. David G. Victor and Kassia Yanosek, "The Crisis in Clean Energy: Stark Realities of the Renewables Craze," Foreign Affairs 90 (4) (2011): 112-120.
13. Elizabeth R. DeSombre and Joanne Kauffman, "The Montreal Protocol Multilateral Fund: Partial Success Story," in Institutions for Environmental Aid, ed. Robert O. Keohane and Marc A. Levy (Cambridge, Mass.: mit Press, 1996), 89-126.
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15. David G. Victor and Richard K. Morse, "Living With Coal: Climate Policy's Most Inconvenient Truth," Boston Review (September/October 2009).
16. Wilfrid L. Kohl, "Consumer Country Energy Cooperation: The International Energy Agency and the Global Energy Order," in Global Energy Governance: The New Rules of the Game, ed. Andreas Goldthau and Jan Martin Witte (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 2010), 195-220.
17. Robert O. Keohane, "The International Energy Agency: State Influence and Transgovernmental Politics," International Organization 32 (4) (Fall 1978): 929-951.
18. The nature of the problem structure makes us skeptical about the sustainability of these proposed cuts, absent reciprocal action by other major emitters.
19. opec revenues quadrupled between 1972 and 1974 and increased by more than 50 percent between 1978 and 1980.
20. See Jeffrey Colgan, Robert O. Keohane, and Thjis van der Graaf, "Punctuated Equilibrium in the Energy Regime Complex," Review of International Organizations 7 (2012): 117-143, Table 4.
21. For this argument, see Robert O. Keohane and David G. Victor, "The Regime Complex for Climate Change," Perspective on Politics 9 (1) (March 2011): 14-16.
22. In the climate change issue-area, such forums are indicated in Figure 1 and include the G-20 Major Economies Forum (mef), various technology and investment partnerships, and private sector and nongovernmental initiatives. In the energy area they include, in addition to opec and the iea, organizations such as the International Energy Forum and the International Renewable Energy Agency.
23. See Keohane and Victor, "The Regime Complex for Climate Change"
24. Colgan, Keohane, and van der Graaf T. "Punctuated Equilibrium in the Energy Regime Complex."
25. David G. Victor, Charles F. Kennel, and Veerabhadran Ramanathan, "The Climate Threat We Can Beat: What It Is and How to Deal With It," Foreign Affairs (May/June 2012)
26. Towards an Action Plan for Near-Term Climate Protection and Clean Air Benefits, unep Science-Policy Brief (Nairobi: United Nations Environment Programme, 2011).