This Handbook is the first volume to analyse the International Political Economy, the who-gets-what-when-and-how, of global energy. Divided into five sections, it features 28 contributions that deal with energy institutions, trade, transitions, conflict and justice. The chapters span a wide range of energy technologies and markets - including oil and gas, biofuels, carbon capture and storage, nuclear, and electricity - and it cuts across the domestic-international divide. Long-standing issues in the IPE of energy such as the role of OPEC and the ¿resource curse¿ are combined with emerging issues such as fossil fuel subsidies and carbon markets. IPE perspectives are interwoven with insights from studies on governance, transitions, security, and political ecology. The Handbook serves as a potent reminder that energy systems are as inherently political and economic as they are technical or technological, and demonstrates that the field of IPE has much to offer to studies of the changing world of energy.

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Part I. Introduction.- Chapter 1: States, markets and institutions: Integrating International Political Economy and global energy politics; Thijs Van de Graaf, Benjamin K. Sovacool, Arunabha Ghosh, Florian Kern, and Michael T. Klare.- Part II: Energy actors and institutions; Primary editor: Thijs Van de Graaf.- Chapter 2: Actors, frames and institutions in global energy politics; Thijs Van de Graaf and Fariborz Zelli.- Chapter 3: The past, present and future role of OPEC; Bassam Fattouh and Anupama Sen.- Chapter 4: Corporations, civil society and disclosure: a case study of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI); James van Alstine and Nathan Andrews.- Chapter 5: The UN, energy, and the Sustainable Development Goals; Sylvia Karlsson-Vinkhuyzen.- Chapter 6: The World Trade Organization's role in global energy governance; Timothy Meyer.- Part III: Energy trade, finance and investment;