Energy, capitalism and world order in IPE / Tim Di Muzio and Jesse Salah Ovadia -- IPE and the unfashionable problematic of capital and energy / Tim Di Muzio -- Reassessing the crisis: ecology and liberal international relations / Shane Mulligan -- The political economy of trade in the age of carbon energy / Silke Trommer and Tim Di Muzio -- Oil-backed capitalist development in the global south: a case of positive oil exceptionalism? / Jesse Salah Ovadia -- A different kind of magic? Oil, development and the Bolivarian revolution in Venezuela / Tom Chodor -- Towards a North American energy bloc: the geopolitical implications of market-preserving federalism / Dan Bousfield -- The political economy of (climate) change: low-carbon energy transitions under capitalism / Peter Newell -- The ethanol boom and distribution coalitions in US agribusiness: beyond 'capital in general' / Joseph Baines and David Ravensbergen -- The unsustainable nature of petro-market civilization in Canada / Matt Dow -- Fracking into the future of petro-market civilization / Emma Lee -- Critical IPE, the open range and the illusion of the epoch / Tim Di Muzio.

Governments across the world are concerned about the future of world order. This original, timely and innovative collection is the first to consider the interconnections between energy, capitalism and the future of world order from the angle of critical political economy. In its wide-ranging chapters, the authors analyze these interlocking topics from three closely assoicated perspectives: energy, capitalism and international theory; energy capitalism and the making of world order; and energy and capitalism in the 21st century. The first section includes important examinations of energy and capitalism, the international trade system and the threat of peak oil to liberalism. The second offers pioneering chapters on petroleum and development in the global south, US-Canadian energy relations and the politics of transitioning to a post-carbon era in the age of climate change. Finally, the book concludes by exploring key new and worrying developments such as the revolution in biofuels, the excavation of Canadian tar sands and the rise of hydraulic fracturing.