Supposed green technological fixes to the climate crisis necessitate the mining of raw
materials such as lithium en masse, spurring the proliferation of mining globally and the …

This historically and critically informed dissertation investigates the question why Canada
has become one of the worlds leaders in promoting fossil fuels through its unconventional …

There is little doubt that, in the last hundred years or so, progress has been made in lifting
more people out of extreme poverty (World Bank 2020). Yet, considerable economic …

European colonialism was often driven by the pursuit of natural resources, and the resulting
colonization and decolonization processes have had a profound impact on the formation of …

This chapter offers an overview and critique of how mainstream theories in IR and IPE have
treated the question of energy. Assuming a critical political economy perspective, we make …

While finance and the practice of investing for profit predates the widespread use of fossil
fuels, by at least the eighteenth century capitalism was becoming ever more wedded to this …

One of the most important and recurring debates in the field of International Political
Economy and international affairs are the links between capitalism, fossil fuel energy and …

Global monetary hierarchies have recently been posed by Kai Koddenbrock as a challenge
to the concept of uneven and combined development (UCD) and its corollary of societal …

The majority of sovereign states that exist today emerged from decolonization. During the
decolonization process, some colonial entities achieved statehood individually, while others …

What is capital and how is it accumulated are fundamental questions in political economy.
Does capital comprise the machines used in production, as the neoclassical economists tell …