Social Sciences in the Mist

... usually set to one side political phenomena”. As my thesis was based on energy, I also found the book by Kuzemko et al (2011: VIII, 3) very useful, it defined the issue I have faced well by saying that most have “consistently conceptualize energy either as commodity to be traded or a resource to be projected politically for foreign policy power… inadvertently reproducing intellectual divided between International Economics and International Relations”. As I carried out my research the perspective that struck me the most, was by Gilpin (1975: 22, 41) as “the relationship between economics and politics translates into that between wealth and power” and that “an economic system does not arise spontaneously ...