Overview
- Argues that the "One Belt, One Road" policy transforms the study of Middle East-China relations assumes greater relevance
- Offers a valuable glimpse at emerging alliances in policy making across non-Western nations such as Saudi Arabia and China
- Engages with a wide range of scholars from multiple nations and disciplines
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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The Environment and Its Consequences for Connectivity
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Back Matter
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About this book
This volume goes beyond a conventional analysis of Asia’s energy relationships and explores the premise that energy relations in Asia in the 21st century should reinforce mutual interdependence. Conventional analyses of international energy relations stress the asymmetric nature of the risks and costs of disruptions to energy flows. Energy suppliers (net exporters) are concerned with the cost of a buyer looking elsewhere; energy consumers (net importers) are preoccupied with the costs associated with an interruption of supply. This perspective reflects the current transactional nature of energy relations and is clearly observed in the energy dynamics between countries in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and the economies of Northeast Asia (NEA).
As the economies of both the GCC and NEA have enlarged there is under-recognized potential for a move away from narrow transactional relations to broader, interdependent ones. This collection of essays from leading energy, strategic, and economic policy think tanks focused on how energy relations are forming in the 21st century offers energy scholars and policy makers answers to what these increasingly close relationships mean for international politics and trade.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Leo Lester is a Research Fellow leading KAPSARC’s China and North East Asia research portfolio. Before joining KAPSARC, he worked in strategy and portfolio development for an international oil company.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Energy Relations and Policy Making in Asia
Editors: Leo Lester
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1094-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-1093-4Published: 10 November 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-9328-9Published: 29 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-1094-1Published: 31 October 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVI, 326
Number of Illustrations: 16 illustrations in colour
Topics: Natural Resource and Energy Economics, Energy Policy, Economics and Management, Energy Security