419. Alexander Etkind - Curse of the Petrostate - What is Connection Between Oil, War, and Climate Crisis

What is the connection between oil, war, and climate crisis? In a long
article “Oil, climate and war: The curse of the petrostate”, Alexander
Etkind explores the tendency of authoritarian petrostates, such as
Russia and Iran, to launch wars and downplay climate change.
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SPEAKER:
Alexander Etkind is a historian and cultural scientist. Alexander Etkind
was born in 1955 in St. Petersburg, Russia, and is a professor at CEU
Vienna. He was formerly a professor of history and the Chair of
Russia-Europe relations at the European University Institute in
Florence. He is fellow of the European Institute for International Law
and International Relations. Etkind's research focuses on European and
Russian intellectual history, memory studies, natural resources and the
history of political economy, empire and colonies in Europe, and Russian
politics, novels, and film in the 21st century. His has written many
compelling books, including Russia Against Modernity, Rethinking the
Gulag and Nature's Evil: A Cultural History of Natural Resources. Links
will be added to the video description.
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LINKS:
Alexander Etkind on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Sasha_Etkind
Alexander Etkind on Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Etkind
Alexander Etkind at the Moscow Times:
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/author/alexander-etkind-2
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BOOKS:
Russia Against Modernity (2023)
Rethinking the Gulag: Identities, Sources, Legacies (2022)
Nature's Evil: A Cultural History of Natural Resources (2021)
Eros Of the Impossible: The History of Psychoanalysis In Russia (2019)
Development and Dystopia: Studies in Post-Soviet Ukraine and Eastern
Europe (2018)
War and Memory in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus (2017)
Cultural Forms of Protest in Russia (2017)
Warped Mourning: Stories of the Undead in the Land of the Unburied
(2013)
Internal Colonization: Russia's Imperial Experience (2011)
Remembering Katyn (2013)
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