Oil and Energy in 20th Century International History - Detailseite

Since the end of the 19^th Century, oil has emerged as a crucial resource for the development of industrialized economies and modern life-styles. As oil resources are distributed unequally around the world, a global economy of oil developed, which was closely connected to international power conflicts. In scholarly and public discourses alike, access to oil has been described as a source of wars as well as a crucial factor in determining their outcomes. Avoiding simple, resource-deterministic explanations, in the seminar we will examine how the global economy of energy was shaped by political conflicts and how it affected international institution-building. Looking at crucial junctures in the history of oil from the two World Wars, the Cold War and the oil crises to decolonization and US-American hegemony, the seminar will not be confined to oil but also take coal, nuclear energy, and renewables into consideration.

Daniel Yergin, The Prize. The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power, New York 1991.

Timothy Mitchell, Carbon Democracy. Political Power in the Age of Oil, London, New York 2011.

Christopher R. W. Dietrich, Oil Revolution. Anticolonial Elites, Sovereign Rights, and the Economic Culture of Decolonization, Cambridge 2017.

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