China's Low-Carbon Energy Relations with Emerging Markets

A Multi-Level Perspective
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-84313-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 218 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Routledge Explorations in Energy Studies

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 solar and wind dominance across the Global South in the areas of green technological trade, project construction, and regime financing. This research provides a convincing explanation for why Chinese coal incumbents have been proactive overseas in spite of the country’s clean energy dominance and Beijing’s climate commitments. Finally, the book argues that China’s low-carbon prowess has longer-term significance for the Global South, and in addition contributes to the rising debates over the geopolitics of renewable transition in a complex, multipolar world.

This volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of Chinese energy policy and foreign relations, energy markets in the Global South, international politics, and the wider global energy transition field.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

McLean, Ryan

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Physik Mechanik Energie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Energie- & Versorgungswirtschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Tourismus & Reise Reise & Urlaub: Führer, Landkarten, Pläne

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.