Green Revolutions? The political economy of the energy transition in the UAE, Jordan and

绿色革命？

• 批准号: 2576981
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Sussex
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2576981
• 关键词: Green; Revolutions; political; economy; energy

Although the economies of the League of Arab States use the least renewable energy in theworld, a limited number are beginning to adopt solar and wind energy. In light of suchdevelopments, this PhD proposal seeks to understand the conditions under whichdecarbonisation takes place in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. By examiningthree case studies - Morocco, Lebanon and the United Arab Emirates - the thesis willinvestigate the features of the political economy that underpin the regional (non-)adoptionof renewable energy. Drawing on discursive institutionalist scholarship, it will be argued thatdecarbonisation happens when national policy elites accept the idea that decarbonisation is'good' for their economies. The hypothesis is that when Arab state policymakers participatein international climate change policy fora, they are influenced by 'discourse coalitions' -groups that believe in the same ideas, but do not necessarily share the same interests -which in turn cause the transmission, adoption and reproduction of decarbonisation policiesin national contexts. These ideas become woven into national narratives and frame the waysin which national strategic priorities are understood. To test my hypothesis, I will interviewkey interest groups involved in regional (de)carbonisation, including representatives ofenergy ministries, policy fora, electric utilities, oil and gas companies and activist groups. Iwill then use process-tracing methods to identify and evaluate the causal mechanismsinvolved in the diffusion of ideas into national policymaking structures. Given ongoingscholarly fixation with interest- and institutional-based political economy approaches to theMENA region, this interdisciplinary project will fill important empirical and methodologicalgaps in energy transition, MENA region and political economy studies.

尽管阿拉伯国家联盟的经济体在世界范围内使用最少的可再生能源，但数量有限的人开始采用太阳能和风能。鉴于这样的发展，该博士提案试图了解中东和北非地区（MENA）地区进行的碳化状况。通过检查案例研究 - 摩洛哥，黎巴嫩和阿拉伯联合酋长国 - 论文将对政治经济学的特征进行介绍，这些特征是基于可再生能源的地区（非）采用。利用话语制度主义的学术奖学金，将会说，当国家政策精英接受脱碳为“古德”的想法时，就会发生十项碳化。假设是，当阿拉伯国家政策制定者参与国际气候变化政策时，他们受到相信相同想法但不一定具有相同利益的“话语联盟”的影响 - 又导致传播，采用和采用，采用，和在国家背景下的脱碳政策的复制。这些思想被编织成民族叙事，并构成了如何理解国家战略优先事项的方式。为了检验我的假设，我将采访参与区域（DE）碳化的基础兴趣集团，包括活力部，政策论坛，电力公用事业，石油和天然气公司以及激进组织。然后，IWILL使用过程追踪方法来识别和评估思想扩散到国家决策结构中的因果机制。鉴于对沿海地区的兴趣和机构的政治经济学方法的固定，该跨学科项目将填补能源过渡，梅纳地区和政治经济学研究的重要经验和方法论。