China’s Energy Security and Relations With Petrostates

Name: China’s Energy Security and Relations With Petrostates
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Chinas Energy Security and Relations With PetrostatesOil as an Idea\nAuthor(s): Anna Kuteleva\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367651329, 978-0367651329\nSynopsis\nThis book examines the development of bilateral energy relations between China and the two oil-rich countries, Kazakhstan and Russia.\n\nChallenging conventional assumptions about energy politics and Chinas global quest for oil, this book examines the interplay of politics and sociocultural contexts. It shows how energy resources become ideas and how these ideas are mobilized in the realm of international relations. Chinas relations with Kazakhstan and Russia are simultaneously enabled and constrained by the discursive politics of oil. It is argued that to build collaborative and constructive energy relations with China, its partners in Kazakhstan, Russia, and elsewhere must consider not only the material realities of Chinas energy industry and the ins.