1st Edition

China’s Energy Security and Relations With Petrostates Oil as an Idea

By Anna Kuteleva Copyright 2022
164 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

164 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

164 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book examines the development of bilateral energy relations between China and the two oil-rich countries, Kazakhstan and Russia. Challenging conventional assumptions about energy politics and China’s 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... Read more

1. What do you imagine when you think about oil?  2. Discursive Politics of Energy and Energy Paradigms: Theoretical Framework and Methodology  3. China’s Discursive Politics of Energy  4. China-Russia energy relations  5. China-Kazakhstan energy relations  6. Conclusions: Examining oil as an idea

Biography

Dr. Anna Kuteleva is a postdoctoral research fellow at the School of International Regional Studies at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia. Anna holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Alberta, Canada, and an MA in World Politics from Shandong University, China. Over the past ten years, she has worked extensively in the realm of political science and Chinese studies. Her research is located in a broad constructivist tradition of IR and focuses on the nexus between politics and sociocultural contexts in international relations, with particular interests in energy politics, Russia, and China.