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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Garrison, Jean A

Titel

China and the Energy Equation in Asia: The Determinants of Policy Choice

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers

Erscheinungsjahr

2009

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Why does China act as it does in its pursuit of energy security? Are "resource wars" inevitable? Going beyond traditional analyses that focus on China as a regional and global threat, Jean Garrison sheds new light on the roots of the country's energy policy and the constraints that it faces. Garrison eschews the zero-sum approaches that underlie much conceptualization of the subject, arguing that they are in large part based on the erroneous notion that China is a unitary actor with a coherent energy strategy. Her attention to the competing developmental and environmental priorities at play in China's domestic politics is a critical contribution to the global energy-security debate.