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In Material Politics, author Andrew Barry reveals that as we are beginning to attend to the importance of materials in political life, materials has become increasingly bound up with the production of information about their performance, origins, and impact. * Presents an original theoretical approach to political geography by revealing the paradoxical relationship between materials and politics * Explores how political disputes have come to revolve not around objects in isolation, but objects that are entangled in ever growing quantities of information about their performance, origins, and impact * Studies the example of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline – a fascinating experiment in transparency and corporate social responsibility – and its wide-spread negative political impact * Capitalizes on the growing interdisciplinary interest, especially within geography and social theory, about the critical role of material artefacts in political life

According to the recent Paper, the EU's dependence on external energy has been increasing constantly.8 As the world's largest energy consumer without its own significant energy reserves, the Union is today one of the world's fastest-growing energy markets and the biggest energy importer.9 The 25 EU member states depend for about 80 percent of their energy consumption on fossil fuels (oil, natural gas and coal). According to the European Commission, extraction costs in the Union are high and the scarce domestic sources that the EU has are running out.12 Domestic oil resources, for example, are moving towards exhaustion;11 renewables, which could become a significant domestic resource of energy in the EU, will need significant investments and substantial policy efforts in order to do so.14 Therefore, the EU as a whole cannot expect domestic energy production to contribute to fulfilling its energy needs under the current circumstances.

Voted back in partly because of its success at managing the country's economic growth, the lack of basic utilities in the nation's capital as temperatures soared was not a pleasant thank-you present from the government. [...] meeting the country's oil and gas needs has become a crucial test of the new government's foreign policy.

The goal of winning the pipeline battle was less to gain the moderate volumes of oil and gas in the Caspian than to maintain (in the case of Russia) or attain (in the case of the United States and Iran) significant presence in the region.

Iraqi Kurdistan is reveling in its newfound oil wealth and growing more estranged from the violent and dysfunctional central government in Baghdad. Yet statehood—the ultimate dream of Iraqi Kurds—will likely be deferred once again, as Kurdistan shifts from Iraq's suffocating embrace to a more congenial dependence on Turkey.