Articles by Ilan Kapoor

April 9, 2026

The quiet power of energy dependence

Ilan Kapoor

From the Strait of Hormuz to Europe’s gas crisis, energy dependence lets states project power through prices, not troops. This, says Ilan Kapoor, is reshaping geopolitical influence

photograph of Ilan Kapoor

Ilan Kapoor

Professor of Critical Development Studies, Faculty of Environmental & Urban Change, York University, Toronto

Ilan’s research is in critical development studies, focusing on global politics, political ecology, and comparative critical theory (democracy, postcoloniality, psychoanalysis).

@ilankapoor.bsky.social

Rethinking Development Politics
Edward Elgar, 2024 (with Gavin Fridell)

Global Libidinal Economy
SUNY Press, 2023 (Co-author, with Gavin Fridell, Maureen Sioh and Pieter de Vries)

Universal Politics
Oxford University Press, 2022 (Co-author, with Zahi Zalloua)

Confronting Desire: Psychoanalysis and International Development
Cornell University Press, 2020

Psychoanalysis and the Global
University of Nebraska Press, 2018 (Editor)

Celebrity Humanitarianism: The Ideology of Global Charity
Routledge, 2013

The Postcolonial Politics of Development
Routledge, 2008

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