1st Edition

China’s Low-Carbon Energy Relations with Emerging Markets A Multi-Level Perspective

By Ryan McLean Copyright 2026
236 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

236 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book explores China’s contemporary energy relations with emerging markets. Through the prisms of global low-carbon transition and power sector development, Ryan McLean utilises the multi-level perspective to build upon existing understandings of the Chinese renewables ‘revolution’ from a top-down interpretation. McLean presents an in-depth analysis of the external ramifications of China’s... Read more

Introduction  1 China and the International Political Economy of Energy Transition: Present Debates, Future Trends  2 The Multi-Level Perspective and Socio-technical Transition: A China-Global South Framework  3 Chinese Renewable Industrialisation: Domestic-International Ramifications  4 A Sino-Global Green Realignment? The Diffusion of Solar and Wind Energy in Emerging Markets  5 Chinese Regime-Level Involvements: State-Led and Multilateral Financing in the Developing World  6 The Yin and Yang of Sino-Global South Energy Relations: Coal Power Incumbents in an Era of Transition  7 The Geopolitical Dimensions of Beijing’s Green Energy Dominance: Cooperation and Conflict in a Multipolar World  Conclusion  Appendix: Interviews

Biography

Ryan McLean is an assistant professor at the Holy Spirit University of Kaslik (USEK) in Lebanon. His research interests are situated in the fields of contemporary Chinese energy policy and energy relations, Chinese political economy, and the global political economy of socio-technical energy transition.