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2013 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Morphogenesis of the Energy Regime Complex
Author : Thijs Van de Graaf
Published in: The Politics and Institutions of global Energy Governance
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
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The aim of this chapter is to provide a broad, macroscopic overview of the emergence and development over time of the energy regime complex or global energy architecture. Building on the analysis of Mommer (2000), Strange (1994), and Victor et al. (2006), I distinguish between four major phases in the development of this regime complex. For a long time, international energy governance revolved around one single issue: securing rents from and access to upstream oil reserves. The first three periods of the development of the energy regime complex are characterized by the dominance of one of the following sets of actors: international companies, their host states, and consuming countries. In each period, the dominant player tries to alter the rules of the game to its advantage by setting up a new governance structure.