Speaker: Dr Philip Andrews-Speed ,
Associate Fellow of Chatham House
Date: Wednesday, 22 June 2011
Time: 3:30pm to 5:00pm
Venue: ESI Conference Room
29 Heng Mui Keng Terrace
Block A #10-01
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Synopsis
China’s rapid economic growth has led to a huge increase in its domestic requirement for energy, in particular for oil. The country has been a net importer of oil for nearly 20 years and its national oil companies have been investing overseas for just as long. This seminar draws on the book of the same title recently published by Routledge (co-authored with Roland Dannreuther) and provides a critical overview of how China’s growing need for oil imports is shaping its international economic and diplomatic strategy and how this affects global political relations and behaviour.
Part One is focused on the domestic drivers of energy policy: it provides a systematic account of recent trends in China’s energy sector and assesses the context and processes of energy policy making, and concludes by showing how and why China’s oil industry has spread across the world in the last fifteen years. Part Two analyses the political and foreign policy implications of this energy-driven expansion and the challenges this potentially poses for China’s integration into the international system. It examines a number of factors linked to this integration in the energy field, including the unpredictabilities of internal policymaking; China’s determination to promote its own critical national interests, and the general ambition of the Chinese leadership to integrate with the international system on its own terms and at its own speed.
About the speaker
Dr Philip Andrews-Speed is an Associate Fellow of Chatham House. Until 2010 he was Professor of Energy Policy at the University of Dundee and Director of the Centre of Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy. The focus of his research has been on energy policy, regulation and reform in China, and on the interface between energy policy and international relations. Publications include: The Strategic Implications of China’s Energy Needs (Adelphi Paper 346, 2002) and Energy Policy and Regulation in the People’s Republic of China (Kluwer Law International, 2004). His book, with Roland Dannreuther, entitled China, Oil and Global Politics was published by Routledge in May 2011, and he is embarking on a book entitled The Governance of Energy in China. Implications for Future Sustainability to be published by Palgrave MacMillan.
Recently he has begun to examine global challenges relating to energy and mineral resources and to the process of policy-making in these sectors. April 2008 saw the publication of International Competition for Resources: the Role of Law, the State and of Markets. From January 2010 he has been leading a major European Union, Framework 7 Programme project with a world-wide remit on “Competition and Collaboration in Access to Oil, Gas and Mineral Resources”.
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