Neoliberal Transformation of Electricity

This book makes a structural analysis of the neoliberal restructuring in the global electricity industry. The book shows that the electricity liberalisation in different countries is just a reflection of the same structural trend in the global economy and avoids from both narrow country-specific and abstract global approaches by making a structural analysis completed by a case study. Thus, it aims reaching wider conclusions about how global changes in finance and ideology / knowledge structures influence domestic energy and economic policy preferences of developing countries. The book develops a taxonomy about organising principles around which the electricity industry has been structured historically and globally, and reveals drivers of change which influences the current energy transition in the electricity sector. Combining these aspects, the book uses financial and other economic data empirically, to shed light on the structural role of global transformation of the electricity markets on the domestic energy policy preferences of the developing countries. Thus, this work will be useful not only for academic purposes, but also for practitioners dealing with these issues.

Serhan Ünal is assistant professor at Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University, Department of International Relations, Ankara, Türkiye. After graduating from Bilkent University, he received his MSc. and PhD. degrees from the Middle East Technical University, from the Department of International Relations. He served at the Turkish Energy Foundation as research director where he published several reports and had conducted projects with various civil society organizations about energy and environment. His research areas cover international political economy, energy and environment in international relations, theories of International Relations, and the Turkish foreign policy. Serhan Ünal is an environmental activist and runs a nation-wide civil society organization.