Papers by Jan Stockbruegger
Technology and World Politics
Oxford Handbooks Online
How does energy shape international conflict? This chapter reviews the ways in which energy has c... more How does energy shape international conflict? This chapter reviews the ways in which energy has contributed to modern international wars and conflicts, then identifies a research agenda centered around two key future strategic challenges: the continued military presence of the United States in the Persian Gulf and strategic competition between the United States and China over China’s maritime oil supply routes in the South China Sea. The chapter focuses primarily on oil, the most important source of energy in the modern age, but also considers other sources of energy. It identifies and describes eight mechanisms linking oil to international conflict, then draws on these mechanisms to show how oil has contributed to international wars and how it has shaped the strategies of states during these wars. The chapter begins with World War I, the first war in which oil played a crucial role, and ends with twenty-first-century conflicts. This includes the impact of the 1973 oil crisis on int...
Within less than a decade piracy has been turned from a marginal economic problem into a global s... more Within less than a decade piracy has been turned from a marginal economic problem into a global security problem. A surprising array of international actors addresses piracy and coordinates their activities. In this contribution we interrogate this astonishing story of international cooperation. We argue that what we observe here is a global security governance arrangement under construction. We conduct a praxiographic analysis of the current counter-piracy governance arrangement. A praxiographic analysis takes as the main unit of analysis practice, that is, collective patterns of action which entail speech and doings. Based on this evidence we carry out what can be called an "informed speculation" about the future of the arrangement. Based on the notion of macro-securitization we develop three different forms of expectations (or scenarios) of what characterizes the piracy governance arrangement: 1) an interest based "alliance" or "coalition of the willing"; 2) as a forming "security community" of cosmopolitan or regional scale; or as a 3) hybrid "global security assemblage".
Contemporary Security Policy, 2011
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Papers by Jan Stockbruegger