Andrew Price-Smith offers a strikingly original interpretation of US foreign policy. Challenging realists and liberal internationalists alike, he argues that the liberal American-led postwar international order is paradoxically grounded in a set of decidedly illiberal practices, particularly in the energy realm. This 'shadow liberal' perspective merits serious attention by those who would seek to make sense of and to shape the evolving international system. -- John S. Duffield, Professor of Political Science, Georgia State University As international commerce has grown, and increasingly come to be governed by the liberal trading regime of the WTO, one major sector -- oil -- remains defiantly subject to raw state interest and power politics. In Oil, Illiberalism, and War Andrew Price-Smith exposes the illiberal logics of the international energy order, and the surprising roles of US foreign policy in its struggles. This volume is required reading for both scholarly debates and public conversations about global political economics. -- Daniel Deudney, Associate Professor of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University
Andrew Price-Smith is Associate Professor and Chair of the Political Science Department at Colorado College. He is the author of The Health of Nations and Contagion and Chaos, both published by the MIT Press.
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