NYC Lecture: Adam Tooze on Electrostates, Petrostates & the New Cold War

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When: Mon, Oct 27, 2025 at 7:30pm - 9:00pm

Where: The New School
66 W. 12th St.
212-229-5108
Price: $30

China is racing ahead in electrification, while the US turns its back on green energy in favour of a new era of fossil fuel machismo. An alignment between the three major petrostates – the US, Saudi Arabia and Russia – no longer looks implausible. The outlines of a new Cold War are becoming visible, one which will be determined by a novel mixture of ideology, critical technologies, supply chains and control of energy flows. How will these geopolitical dynamics play out – and what will it mean for global warming?

Adam Tooze is the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of History and director of the European Institute at Columbia University. A columnist at Foreign Policy and a regular contributor to the LRB, he also writes Chartbook, a newsletter on economics, geopolitics and history. His books include Crashed: How a decade of financial crises changed the world and Shutdown: How Covid shook the world’s economy.