Browsing Mühendislik ve Doğa Bilimleri Fakültesi by Author "Bowlus, John V."
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A crude marriage: Iraq Turkey and the Kirkuk-Ceyhan oil pipeline
Bowlus, John V. (Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2017)Since the discovery of oil at Kirkuk in northern Iraq oil has shaped relations between Iraq and Turkey as the former needed markets and export routes to the Mediterranean and the latter reliable sources of supply. This ... -
A Farewell to King Coal: Geopolitics, Energy Security, and the Transition to Oil, 1898–1917
Ediger, Volkan S.; Bowlus, John V. (Cambridge Univ Press, 2019)Interest in energy transitions has accelerated in recent years due to rising concerns about global warming and resource scarcity but the drivers of these phenomena are not well understood. To date scholars have primarily ... -
Geopolitics and gas-transit security through pipelines
Ediger, Volkan S.; Bowlus, John V.; Aydın, Mustafa (Springer International Publishing, 2020)Hydrocarbons are valuable only if they can be transited from where they are produced to where they are consumed. Despite the enduring importance of transit to the global energy system, the topic did not begin to be extensively ... -
Greasing the wheels: the Berlin-Baghdad railway and Ottoman oil, 1888?1907
Ediger, Volkan S.; Bowlus, John V. (Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2020)In the 1880s, Germany cultivated an alliance with the Ottoman Empire that led to a concession to build one of history?s most storied, diplomatically contentious, and financially challenging infrastructure projects: the ... -
Perception, petroleum, and power: Mythmaking in oil-scarce Turkey and Jordan
Ediger, Volkan S.; Selen, Eser; Bowlus, John V. (Elsevier, 2020)Oil has been a cardinal driver of economic growth and national development in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. States that produce oil in globally exportable quantities tend to be more powerful than those that do ...