Front matter
Fossil Fuels,
Thermodynamics,
ENERG Ye
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This book began with research undertaken as a graduate student in the Department of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. I owe my first, and greatest, debt to my teachers, friends, and fellow students at Johns Hopkins for supporting creative and interdisciplinary scholarship. Iam immensely grateful to my committee members for their guidance. It was in a typically far-ranging conversation with Daniel Deudney that the topic of energy first arose, and I have him to thank for planting the first seed of this project. Because of the faith he invested in me, and his own encyclopedic knowledge of environmental studies, I had the liberty to roam far afield of disciplinary boundaries in my research. I was also fortunate to have the mentorship of Jane Bennett. She provided a model for how to think and write well, and with creativity, as a scholar of politics. If I entered her office feeling discouraged, I almost always left with new inspiration, and likely with some clever turns of phrase that would catapult me over the latest writer’s block. Thank you also to the other members of my committee, Bentley Allen, Michael Degani, and Deborah Poole, for their helpful comments.
While at Johns Hopkins, I also gleaned inspiration from seminars and conversation with William Connolly, Siba Grovogui, Jennifer Culbert, and Richard Flathman. And I was equally fortunate to join a community of brilliant colleagues and alums, many of whom have offered suggestions, feedback, and advice, including Alexander Barder, Suzanne Gallant, Elizabeth Mendenhall, Daniel Levine, Jairus Victor Grove, Meghan Helsel, Hannah Son, Hitomi Koyama, Noora Lori, Kellan Anfinson, Anatoli Ignatov, Jacqui Ignatova, Stefanie Fishel, Benjamin Meiches, Adam Culver, Yehonatan Abramson, Derek Denman, and Kavi Abraham. I benefited from presenting early versions of this text at a graduate student colloquium organized by Bryan Brentus Carter and Stephanie Erev, where Elizabeth Mendenhall served as one of my most insightful discussants. Last but not least, I would like to thank the seventeen Johns Hopkins undergraduate students who took my course, “Energy and Global Politics,” in the fall of 2015. Through teaching these concepts for the first time, I learned better ways to articulate them.
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