China's Approach to Energy Security

This book aims to analyze how and why China takes a state-managed marketization approach (SMMA) to energy security against the backdrop of global efforts of decarbonization and intensified strategic competition between China and the United States. How, and why, does China's SMMA work? Taking an evolving, historical perspective, this book explores China's perception of energy security, the policy process, institutional restructuring in China's petroleum industry, China's foreign energy quest, and the ramifications of the Chinese approach on the international energy market and on world decarbonization. To demonstrate to what extent China's SMMA differs from other countries, it also makes a comparative analyses of the approaches by China, the US and India. This book will keenly interest scholars of the Chinese political economy, climate change, and geopolitics.

Creatively describes 'state-marketization' of energy markets Puts Chinese energy policies into a comparative approach Gives context for Chinese climate change policies

Autorentext

Shaofeng CHEN is an associate professor at the School of International Studies, Peking University (PKU). Before joining PKU, he used to work at the East Asian Institute at the National University of Singapore. He was a visiting professor at Hong Kong University in 2014 and New York University in 2015. His research interests cover energy security, regional cooperation and integration in Asia, and global economic governance.

Inhalt
Introduction.- 1 State-Managed Marketization Approach and Role Compatibility: A Theoretical Framework.- 2 Energy Security: Perceptions and Realities.- 3 Institutional Reform in the Lens of State-Managed Marketization Approach.- 4 Energy Policies from the Angle of State-Managed Marketization Approach.- 5 Use of State-Managed Marketization Approach in Domestic Market.- 6 Foreign Energy Quest in the Lens of State-Managed Marketization Approach.- 7 Use of State-Managed Marketization Approach in Foreign Market.- 8 Is China's Approach to Energy Security Distinctive? Comparative Analysis with the US and India.- 9 State-Managed Marketization Approach and State-SOEs-Market Relations.- Conclusion.