Great Power Politics, Elites and Energy (Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics)

Great Power Politics, Elites and Energy explores the dynamics between great power politics, elites and energy, utilizing a critical political economic and historical materialist perspective that moves away from a Western-centric viewpoint and dominant International Relations methodologies. The book highlights the reality of national ruling class competition and domination that is at the core of the dynamics of the international system, and the dependence on ever-increasing amounts of energy to bolster state power.A great power politics that locks in a power-up and ongoing usage of fossil fuels, when a power-down and energy transition is actually what is required.The way in which elites dominate their own society, and can dominate other societies, is fully theorized, together with the fundamental clash between Chinese and US political economic models and elites.The internal dynamics of China, the US and Russia are investigated through historical materialist analyses which take full acco