Michael Bradshaw: Book Launch
We invite you to join for us for the launch of Professor Michael Bradshaw's new book.
Geopolitics and Energy System Transformation: Managing the Messy Mix
Date: Wednesday 18th February 2026
Location: Warwick Business School, The Shard, 13th Floor, London.
Event Schedule
09:30 - 10:00: Arrival and Registration
10:00 - 11:00: Session 1: Introduction to the Messy Mix and the Book Project
11:00 - 11:30: Coffee Break
11:30 - 13:00: Session 2: Geopolitics, Energy Security and Resilience of Net Zero (UKERC Sponsored)
13:00 - 14:00: Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:30: Session 3: Fragmentation, Deglobalisation and Energy System Transformation (CSGR/PAIS Sponsored)
15:30 - 16:00: Tea Break
16:00 - 17:15: Session 4: Panel Discussion on Managing the Messy Mix
17:00: Drinks Reception
Meet The Author
Michael Bradshaw is Professor of Global Energy in the Strategy and International Business Group at Warwick Business School, University of Warwick.
Prof. Bradshaw's academic background is in human geography. He competed his undergraduate training at the University of Birmingham (BSc) and he has an MA from the University of Calgary (Alberta) and he gained his PhD at the University of British Columbia. He works at the interface between economic and political geography, business and management and international relations. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (and past Vice President) and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.
Prof. Bradshaw's research on the geopolitical economy of global energy has examined the role of foreign investment in Russia's oil and gas industry (with a focus on Sakhalin); global energy dilemmas and the interrelationship between energy security climate change and economic globalization; and the challenges to the UK's gas security. He is the academic lead for the University's Global Research Priority on Energy. He is the author of Global Energy Dilemmas (2014), co-editor of Global Energy: Issues, Potentials and Policy Implications (2015), and co-author of Energy and Society: A Critical Perspective (2018) and Natural Gas (2020, Polity Press). He is currently involved in a 5-year programme of research on the UK's energy transition in global context for the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC 4) and is monitoring and assessing the UK shale gas landscape as part of a 4-year NERC/ESRC research programme on Unconventional Hydrocarbons in the UK Energy System.
He is the author of The Geopolitics of Energy System Transformation: Managing the Messy Mix.
The Geopolitics of Energy System Transformation: Managing The Messy Mix
Our global energy system needs radical and speedy transformation in order to meet climate change targets. This shift is currently conceived in two ways: a ‘high carbon transition’ away from fossil fuels and a ‘low carbon transition’, the development of a low carbon energy system. This accessible book guides us through the 'messy mix', the perilous ground that sits between the present and the future energy systems.
Evidence-based and solutions-focused, this is a novel framework to help manage geopolitical challenges and enable a swift, just, orderly and equitable transition away from fossil fuels.
You can find the book HERE.
