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Geopolitical Economy of Energy and Environment
China and the European Union
Series: - International Comparative Social Studies, Volume: 36
This book is the product of a joint research program between the Institute of West Asia & African Studies of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing and the Energy Program Asia of the International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden University. Chinaâs transition to an urban-industrial society relies on its abundant domestic coal supplies, and on an increase in oil and gas imports. However, authorities are confronted with trade-offs between investments in expanding supplies of fossils, environmental sustainability, energy efficiency and in clean energy. Resources spent on expanding imported energy have to weighted against clean energy investments and improving efficiency of the fossil-fuel sector. The same is no less true for the European Union and its member states. Import dependency on piped gas is again growing. Security of supply of natural gas depends on political cooperation with energy-rich countries. At the same the EU has to meet its clean energy commitments by compromises between member states and âBrusselsâ. Chinese National Oil Companies bridge the worlds of government in China and the extractive sector in hydrocarbon exporting-countries. At the global level, Chinese (Trans-)National Oil Companies maintain competitive and cooperative relations with privately owned International Oil companies. This book focuses, among others, on these networks with the objective to contribute to the study of the geopolitical economy of the energy sectors in the global system.
Contributors are: M.P. Amineh, Eric K. Chu, Wina H.J. Crijns-Graus, Robert Cutler, Li Xiaohua, Liu Dong, Chen Mo, Nana de Graaff, Joyeeta Gupta, Sara Hardus, Barbara Hogenboom, Sun Hongbo and Yang Guang.
Contributors are: M.P. Amineh, Eric K. Chu, Wina H.J. Crijns-Graus, Robert Cutler, Li Xiaohua, Liu Dong, Chen Mo, Nana de Graaff, Joyeeta Gupta, Sara Hardus, Barbara Hogenboom, Sun Hongbo and Yang Guang.
Mehdi P. Amineh is a Senior Research Fellow at the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), University of Leiden, the Netherlands and Program Director of the Energy Program Asia (EPA) at the same institute. He is also Adjunct Professor of International Relations at Webster University, Leiden, Senior lecturer and affiliated fellow at the Amsterdam International School for Social Science Research (AISSR), University of Amsterdam.
Yang Guang is Director-General and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of West Asian and African Studies, Professor and Dean of the department for Asian-African Studies at the graduate school of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS).
Yang Guang is Director-General and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of West Asian and African Studies, Professor and Dean of the department for Asian-African Studies at the graduate school of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS).
"[...] this thorough study is recommended to students interested in the supply of energy to China and the EU." - Henk Houweling, in: China Information, Vol. 33, Issue 1, pp. 115-116
"[...] high quality of research in the contributions to this book, presenting factual information as well as analyses of economic and political strategies by governments and oil companies that encompass major regions of strategic importance not only to the great powers, but also the economies and societies of countries that may not directly participate in the âgreat gamesâ of the major players."
- Kurt Radtke, in: newbooks.asia, May 2018
"[...] high quality of research in the contributions to this book, presenting factual information as well as analyses of economic and political strategies by governments and oil companies that encompass major regions of strategic importance not only to the great powers, but also the economies and societies of countries that may not directly participate in the âgreat gamesâ of the major players."
- Kurt Radtke, in: newbooks.asia, May 2018
Acknowledgments
List of Maps, Tables and Figures
List of Abbreviations
List of Contributors
Geopolitical Economy of Energy and Environment: China and the European UnionâIntroduction to the Volume
âMehdi P. Amineh and Yang Guang
1 Energy and Geopolitical Economy in China: Theory and Concepts
âMehdi P. Amineh and Yang Guang
2 The Dual Face of Chinaâs âGoing Globalâ. Transnationalizing National Oil Companies, Elites, and Global Networks
âNana de Graaff
3 Chinaâs Resource Demand and Market Opportunities in the Middle East: Policies and Operations in Iran and Iraq
âLiu Dong
4 Strategies and Interactions in the Transnationalization of Chinaâs National Oil CompaniesâThe Cases of CNOOC and Sinopec in Ghana
âSarah Hardus
5 The Transnationalization Strategy of Chinese National Oil Companies with Case Studies of Sudan and Saudi Arabia
âChen Mo
6 Chinese Influences and the Governance of Oil in Latin America the Cases of Venezuela, Brazil, and Ecuador
âBarbara Hogenboom
7 Actors and their Interactions in the Sino-Venezuelan Oil Cooperation Model
âSun Hongbo
8 Foundation of the East Central Eurasian Hydrocarbon Energy Complex: The Role of China, Russia, Kazakhstan, and Their National Oil Companies
âRobert Cutler
9 The Geo-Ecological Risks of Oil Investments by China and the Global South: The Right to Development Revisited
âJoyeeta Gupta, Eric Chu, Kyra Bos, and Tessel Kuijten
10 Energy Transition and the Conflicts and Cooperation between China and EU Member States in Renewable Energy FieldsâA Case Study of the Photovoltaic Industry
âLi Xiaohua
11 Geopolitical Economy of Energy Security in the European Union the Persian Gulf, the Caspian Region and China
âMehdi P. Amineh and Wina H.J. Crijns-Graus
Bibliography
Index
List of Maps, Tables and Figures
List of Abbreviations
List of Contributors
Geopolitical Economy of Energy and Environment: China and the European UnionâIntroduction to the Volume
âMehdi P. Amineh and Yang Guang
Part 1: The Transnationalization of Chinese-National Oil Companies
1 Energy and Geopolitical Economy in China: Theory and Concepts
âMehdi P. Amineh and Yang Guang
2 The Dual Face of Chinaâs âGoing Globalâ. Transnationalizing National Oil Companies, Elites, and Global Networks
âNana de Graaff
3 Chinaâs Resource Demand and Market Opportunities in the Middle East: Policies and Operations in Iran and Iraq
âLiu Dong
4 Strategies and Interactions in the Transnationalization of Chinaâs National Oil CompaniesâThe Cases of CNOOC and Sinopec in Ghana
âSarah Hardus
5 The Transnationalization Strategy of Chinese National Oil Companies with Case Studies of Sudan and Saudi Arabia
âChen Mo
6 Chinese Influences and the Governance of Oil in Latin America the Cases of Venezuela, Brazil, and Ecuador
âBarbara Hogenboom
7 Actors and their Interactions in the Sino-Venezuelan Oil Cooperation Model
âSun Hongbo
8 Foundation of the East Central Eurasian Hydrocarbon Energy Complex: The Role of China, Russia, Kazakhstan, and Their National Oil Companies
âRobert Cutler
Part 2: Environment, Climate Change and Renewable Energy Resources the European Union and China
9 The Geo-Ecological Risks of Oil Investments by China and the Global South: The Right to Development Revisited
âJoyeeta Gupta, Eric Chu, Kyra Bos, and Tessel Kuijten
10 Energy Transition and the Conflicts and Cooperation between China and EU Member States in Renewable Energy FieldsâA Case Study of the Photovoltaic Industry
âLi Xiaohua
Part 3: Energy and Geopolitics: The European Union Energy Supply Security and Geopolitics
11 Geopolitical Economy of Energy Security in the European Union the Persian Gulf, the Caspian Region and China
âMehdi P. Amineh and Wina H.J. Crijns-Graus
Bibliography
Index
All those interested in the geopolitical economy of fosil-fuels, as well as alternative energy resources and environment, mainly related to China and EU.