Geopolitical economy of energy and environment : : China and the European Union / / edited by Mehdi P. Amineh and Yang Guang.

• TeilnehmendeR: Amineh, Mehdi Parvizi.; Guang, Yang.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2017.
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: International Comparative Social Studies 36.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

This book is the product of a joint research program between the Institute of West Asia andamp; African Studies of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing and the Energy Program Asia of the International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden University. China’s 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 ‘Brussels’. 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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Geopolitical Economy of Energy and Environment: China and the European Union—Introduction to the Volume / Mehdi P. Amineh and Yang Guang -- Energy and Geopolitical Economy in China: Theory and Concepts / Mehdi P. Amineh and Yang Guang -- The Dual Face of China’s ‘Going Global’: Transnationalizing National Oil Companies, Elites, and Global Networks / Nana de Graaff -- China’s Resource Demand and Market Opportunities in the Middle East: Policies and Operations in Iran and Iraq / Dong Liu -- Strategies and Interactions in the Transnationalization of China’s National Oil Companies—The Cases of cnooc and Sinopec in Ghana / Sarah Hardus -- The Transnationalization Strategy of Chinese National Oil Companies with Case Studies of Sudan and Saudi Arabia / Mo Chen -- Chinese Influences and the Governance of Oil in Latin America the Cases of Venezuela, Brazil, and Ecuador / Barbara Hogenboom -- Actors and their Interactions in the Sino-Venezuelan Oil Cooperation Model / Hongbo Sun -- Foundation of the East Central Eurasian Hydrocarbon Energy Complex: The Role of China, Russia, Kazakhstan, and Their National Oil Companies / Robert M. Cutler -- The Geo-Ecological Risks of Oil Investments by China and the Global South: The Right to Development Revisited / Joyeeta Gupta , Eric Chu , Kyra Bos and Tessel Kuijten -- Energy Transition and the Conflicts and Cooperation between China and eu Member States in Renewable Energy Fields—A Case Study of the Photovoltaic Industry / Xiaohua Li -- Geopolitical Economy of Energy Security in the European Union, the Persian Gulf, the Caspian Region and China / Mehdi P. Amineh and Wina H. J. Crijns-Graus -- Bibliography -- Index.