Abstract
The discipline of International Relations has had a longstanding and rich research agenda on the international politics of oil. Using the tripartite theoretical traditions of realism, liberalism and critical theory, this chapter provides a survey of the multiple ways in which research contributions in IR have enriched our understanding of how oil has shaped and defined international and global politics. The chapter also examines the different ways in which these IR theoretical traditions have addressed the materiality of oil and the interaction with the social, economic and political. The chapter argues that new insights for IR can be gained through applying the new materialisms approach to the study of the materiality of oil. In particular, gains can be made by examining the materiality oil in terms of its agentic power, its constitution as an international assemblage, and through a relational ontology which does not privilege any particular body or actor.
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