Energy Security in Asia and Eurasia

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-367-87813-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 313 g

Reihe: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

Many states appear to have strong sentiment on energy security and energy transit vulnerability. Some analysts see the rapidly increasing demand for energy and competition for energy resources leading to nationalistic energy policies. Others argue that global trends with efficient energy markets and growing options on renewables suggest more relaxed energy outlooks.

This book focuses on Asia, where global demand for energy is now concentrated in the aspiring and rising powers of the region: China, India, Japan and South Korea, and also recognises the importance of Russia as a growing energy supplier. Contributions by experts in the field provide detailed and parallel case studies. Shedding light on the ongoing debate in the literature regarding energy outlooks of major Asian states, they analyse whether energy policies are expected to evolve along market oriented cooperative lines or more competitive and even destructive mercantile, nationalist lines. The book argues that states are not unitary actors even in the key energy security arena and there are competing and contrasting viewpoints in Asian states on energy security. It suggests that domestic debates structure thinking on energy security, making energy policy more contingent than assumed by purely market or geopolitical logics.

Providing a strong contribution to comparative energy security studies, the book fills an important gap in the literature on energy and national security and offers a basis for conducting further inter-state, interactive analysis. It will be of interest to researchers on Asian Studies, energy politics and international relations.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mochizuki, Mike M.

Ollapally, Deepa M.

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Introduction: The Energy Security Dissonance

2 Energy Security and Foreign Investment: Asian Resource Nationalism in a Political-Economy Mirror

3 Outlooks on Chinese Energy Security Vulnerabilities

4 Indian Perspectives on Energy Security: Convergence and Divergence

5 Japan’s Energy Security: Strategic Discourse and Domestic Politics

6 Energy and Transit Security in South Korea

7 The Energy Factor in Russia’s ‘Asia Pivot’

8 Oil, Asia, and U.S. Foreign and Security Policy

Über Autor(innen)

Mike M. Mochizuki holds the Japan-U.S. Relations Chair in Memory of Gaston Sigur at the Elliott School of International Affairs at The George Washington University, USA. He co-directs the "Memory and Reconciliation in the Asia-Pacific" research and policy project of the Sigur Center.

Deepa M. Ollapally is Research Professor of International Affairs and Associate Director at the Sigur Center for Asian Studies at George Washington University, USA. She is directing a major research project on power and identity and the worldviews of rising and aspiring powers in Asia and Eurasia.