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The Chinese State, Oil and Energy Security

Part of the International Political Economy Series Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9781137350558

ISBN: 978-1-349-46840-9

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Nov 7, 2015

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A Party-State Centred Explanation of Policymaking in China’s Oil Sector

Taylor, Monique

Pages: 1 –30

[This volume traces the development of China’s state-led oil strategy, which is frequently referred to in the extant literature as ‘neomercantilist’ in orientation. This statist strategy is in contrast with a liberal market-led approach to energy security, which relies on markets to allocate oil...
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Sectoral Governance and State Capacity

Taylor, Monique

Pages: 31 –49

[The concept of state capacity is central to understanding the ways in which China’s quest for energy security has manifested itself, both domestically and internationally. Specifically, the nature of the political authority and institutional arrangements that govern China’s oil sector need to be...
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The Interplay of Elite and Bureaucratic Power

Taylor, Monique

Pages: 50 –69

[Scholarly explanations of Chinese political economy make much of its allegedly fragmented and decentralised character, which is deemed to have diminished the capacity of the central party-state to formulate and implement coherent, coordinated and effective policies. More specifically, policy...
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The Socialist Era of Oil Self-Sufficiency (1949–1977)

Taylor, Monique

Pages: 70 –87

[During the PRC’s early years the development of the oil sector was heavily influenced by revolutionary fervour, ideological campaigns and the nationwide drive for rapid industrialisation. The oil industry became a locus for these ideational and structural forces to the point where the Maoist...
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Decentralisation and Corporatisation of the Oil Sector (1978–2002)

Taylor, Monique

Pages: 88 –111

[Despite achieving initial success in oil exploration and production in the early 1960s, China’s oil industry soon began to languish under the centrally planned economic system and radicalised political environment, both of which failed in the long run to provide the right incentives for new oil...
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Rebuilding Oil State Capacity (2003–2013)

Taylor, Monique

Pages: 112 –148

[China’s shift to the status of net oil import in 1993 began to steadily push oil security up the Chinese government’s policy agenda throughout the 1990s (Andrews-Speed 2010: 32). However, the continuing ability of international oil markets to meet China’s oil demand during this time served to...
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China’s National Oil Companies ‘Go Global’

Taylor, Monique

Pages: 149 –174

[China’s large SOEs operate in the commanding heights of the economy, that is, mostly in the strategic sectors such as energy and power, industrial raw materials, military industry, large-scale machinery building, transport, banking and telecommunications. These SOEs are centrally-administered...
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Authoritarian State Capacity in a Liberal World Order

Taylor, Monique

Pages: 175 –187

[The main objectives of this study were to provide an explanation of why China pursues a state-led oil strategy, and show how this orientation has been developed and implemented over time. This involved an examination of China’s oil state capacity-building efforts with a focus on the Reform Era,...

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