Textbook in PDF format The energy transition is fundamentally transforming geopolitics, with renewable energy and other decarbonization options reshaping existing energy markets, trade flows, and energy security strategies. What new opportunities and challenges await us? Will it pacify global energy relations or bring a perilous transition? This comprehensive Handbook discusses the geopolitical implications of the energy transition. The first part summarizes established insights and delivers suitable notions and analytical frameworks to investigate the phenomenon. Subsequent parts then provide a detailed and comparative overview of the geopolitics of the energy transition from different perspectives: expectations, technologies, and countries. Combined, the chapters provide a quintessential starting point for scholars and practitioners and prepare them for changes to come. The Handbook on the Geopolitics of the Energy Transition is essential for students of politics, geography, environmental studies and international relations seeking to grasp the present circumstances of renewable energy geopolitics. It also benefits policy makers working in sectors such as energy and foreign policy. Content Part I Energy geopolitics and the energy transition Geopolitics, geoeconomics and energy security in an age of transition towards renewables - David Criekemans Energy systems – making energy services available - Aad Correljé The political history of fossil fuels: coal, oil, and natural gas in global perspective - Per Högselius The facts and figures of the energy transition - Dolf Gielen and Francisco Boshell US–China rivalry and its impact on the energy transformation: difficult cooperation fraught with dilemmas - Jacopo Maria Pepe, Julian Grinschgl, and Kirsten Westphal Part II Two steps forward, one step back: Tne geopolitical implications of the energy transition Transition to renewable energy and the reshaping of consumer–producer power relations - Kamila Pronińska The geopolitics of energy transportation and carriers: from fossil fuels to electricity and hydrogen - Karen Smith Stegen, Julia Kusznir, and Cäcilia Riederer Industrial competition – who is winning the renewable energy race? - Thomas Sattich and Stella Huang Barrels, booms, and busts: the future of petrostates in a decarbonizing world - Thijs Van de Graaf Critical materials – new dependencies and resource curse? - Emmanuel Hache, Gondia Sokhna Seck, Fernanda Guedes, and Charlene Barnet Changing energy systems and markets from the ground up – citizens, cooperatives and cities - Colin Nolden Exploring the geopolitical impacts of energy justice: an interdisciplinary research agenda - Christine Milchram and Morena Skalamera The politics of sustainability: energy efficiency, carbon pricing, and the circular economy - Michaël Aklin and Patrick Bayer PART III NEW TECHNOLOGIES, NEW INTERDEPENDENCIES Solar powers – renewables and sustainable development around the world or geostrategic competition? 264 Thomas Sattich, Stephen Agyare, and Oluf Langhelle Wind energy – experiences with onshore and offshore projects 282 Yaroslava Marusyk A new life for old giants: hydropower and geothermal 300 Victor R. Vasquez The potential of biomass 334 Joana Portugal-Pereira, Francielle Carvalho, Régis Rathmann, Alexandre Szklo, Pedro Rochedo, and Roberto Schaeffer Hydrogen as carbon-free energy carrier and commodity Ad van Wijk A new hope for nuclear? Elina Brutschin PART IV RECALIBRATING ENERGY, INDUSTRY, FOREIGN, AND SECURITY POLICY US defense strategy: forging an industrial orientation towards energy security and foreign policy Amy Myers Jaffe The EU’s external energy governance in the age of the energy transition Marco Giuli and Sebastian Oberthür China and the geopolitics of the energy transition Duncan Freeman The India story: ensuring energy access, security, justice, and sustainability for a fifth of humanity Shuva Raha, Nandini Harihar, and Tulika Gupta Energy transition dynamics in Southeast Asia Muhamad Izham Abd Shukor, Nurjuanis Zara Zainuddin, and Noor Miza Razali A renewable power in waiting? Australia’s changing energy geopolitics Christian Downie The global energy transition and Russian structural power: scenarios and strategic options Filippos Proedrou Geopolitical challenges of renewable energy adoption in MENA Emre Hatipoglu, Aisha Al-Sarihi, and Brian Efird Energy transformation and energy challenges in sub-Saharan African countries: a new paradigm for the 21st century? Gondia Sokhna Seck, Emmanuel Hache, Edi Assoumou, and Rebecca Martin Renewable energies in Latin America: resources, public policies, and geopolitics Gonzalo Escribano, Lara Lázaro, and Eva Pardo