Mondays, March 3 – May 5, 2025
9:00 -10:30 AM ET
Hosted on Zoom
Course Overview
This 10-week online seminar will cover the characteristics and challenges of energy transition. It will examine the political economy of transition, focusing on major changes that transfer to green and renewable energy will bring the global economy, politics, and geopolitics.
The energy transition that is driven by climate change is likely to bring fundamental transformation challenging the political and economic status quo across geographic areas. This course builds knowledge and provides critical tools for analyzing these changes and their effects on development, governance, and stability. To examine the effect of energy transition, we will cover various case studies demonstrating major common and specific trends in politics and economy caused by the decline of fossil fuels and the development of renewables.
Learning Objectives
- Understand the basics of the political economy of energy resources and rentier states, economic approaches for achieving energy transition;
- Make assessments energy markets and their functions, classification of energy sources and energy transition;
- Analyze the global policy of energy transition, key aspects of Paris agreement, UN Climate Change conferences (COP28/29) and global methane pledge;
- Identify the economic, social, and political implications of energy transition;
- Critically analyze the influence of various kinds of resources (fossil fuels, renewables) on geopolitics, democracy building, stability, and sustainable development;
- Think strategically about energy transition and energy security.
Seminar Leaders
Dr. Leila Alieva
Research Associate, Russian and East European Studies Center
Oxford School of Global and Area Studies, University of Oxford
Dr. Leila Alieva has been an academic visitor, seniour Common Room member at St. Antony’s college since 2014, prior to the position at OSGA, as well as research and teaching fellowships at Harvard, UC Berkeley, Robert Bosch Academy and other. She has been researching, writing on political economy of energy, and while at Oxford, teaching a course on politics of energy transition.
Dr. Gubad Ibadoghlu
Senior Visiting Fellow
London School of Economics
Dr. Gubad Ibadoghlu has been serving as a Senior Visiting Fellow at the LSE since 2021. Prior to this, he was an affiliated postdoctoral fellow at the Center for European Studies at Rutgers University. From 2018 to 2021, during his tenure at Rutgers, Dr. Ibadoghlu taught four courses in the Department of Political Science and Economics: International Political Economy, Globalization, Democracy, and Contemporary Capitalism, Economics of Transition, and Economics of Natural Resources for Sustainable Development.
Syllabus and Readings
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Course Schedule
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Certificates of Satisfactory Completion
Participants who attend 8 out of 10 complete seminar sessions are eligible to receive a Certificate of Satisfactory Completion signed by the Dean of The New School for Social Research.