China's Energy Relations with the Developing World

Carrie Liu Currier is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Director of Asian Studies at Texas Christian University. Her research interests are focused on China's economic reform policies to understand how developing countries are adapting to the demands of globalization. Her publications include several articles in the American Journal of Chinese Studies, Journal of Chinese Political Science, Politics and Policy. Manochehr Dorraj is Professor of Political Science at Texas Christian University where he teaches courses on International Relations, Globalization, Politics of Developing Nations, and the Politics of the Middle East and North Africa. He has published extensively on Third World and Middle East development issues and their foreign relations.

• Part I. Theoretical and Historical Overview; 1. The Strategic Implications of China's Energy Engagement with the Developing World; Carrie Liu Currier and Manochehr Dorraj; 2. The Evolution of China's Grand Strategy with the Developing World; Lui Hebron; 3. The Domestic Political Context for China's Quest for Energy Security; Jean A. Garrison; Part II. Regional Case Studies; 4. China's Quest for Energy Security in the Middle East: Strategic Implications; Manochehr Dorraj and Carrie Liu Currier; 5. China, Russia, and Central Asia: Triangular Energy Politics; Gregory Gleason; 6. China's Energy Relations with Africa; ZHAO Hong; 7. China, Latin America, and the United States: The Political Economy of Energy Policy in the Americas; Gregg B. Johnson and Jesse T. Wasson; 8. A Strategic Game: China's Energy Relations with Japan and India; Jian Yang; Part III. Challenges for the Future; 9. Pipelines versus Sea Lanes: Challenges and Opportunities for Securing Energy Resources; Andrew S. Erickson and Gabriel B. Collins; 10. China's Energy Relations with the Global South: Potential for Great Power Realignment; Charles E. Ziegler; Index.

"This book offers a variety of excellent essays that cover many new developments in China's quest for energy security, its energy strategies, and its interactions abroad in the developing world, with regional coverage of Middle East, Central Asia, Africa, and Latin America as playing fields, and country coverage of China, Russia, the United States, Japan, and India as key players in those regions. This book is a must for energy policy analysts and scholars dealing with China's foreign policy behavior in the developing world. The insights offered by the authors would be invaluable for understanding China's quest for energy security abroad."—Sujian Guo, Professor of Political Science and Director of Center for US-China Policy Studies at San Francisco State University