Featured in Connected to technology – 05-2020

New fuels, new powers

The energy transition will change the geopolitical landscape, which has hitherto observed closely who controls the production and trade of hydrocarbons. The current ambition to find alternative sources of power has given impetus to a growing academic community to determine the probable geopolitical outcome of the energy transition. Renewables do not mutually share most of the unique features of fossil fuels, which translate into power political effects. So how should we understand the world of tomorrow?

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Marian Willuhn

25 May 2020

Image: Jonas Jordan, United States Army Corps of Engineers/ Public domain

The causal relationship between geography and the power of states, determined by their access to natural resources and their means of transporting them, has become an essential field for scholars and laymen to understand the world of conflict and alliance geopolitics. With fossil fuels being the driver of industrialization and a source of power in …

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