Monique Taylor analyses the policy rationale and institutional underpinnings of China's state-led or neomercantilist oil strategy, and its development, set against the wider context of economic transformation as the country transitions from a centrally planned to market economy.

Autorentext
Monique Taylor is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the China and Globalization Research Cluster and Public Policy and Global Affairs Programme, School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Previously she was a lecturer in the School of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Queensland, Australia.

Inhalt

1. A Party-State Centred Approach to the Study of Energy Policy in China 2. Sectoral Governance and State Capacity 3. The Interplay of Elite and Bureaucratic Power 4. The Socialist Era of Oil Self-Sufficiency (1949 1978) 5. Decentralisation and Corporatisation of the Oil Sector (1978 2003) 6. Rebuilding Oil State Capacity (2003 2012) 7. China's National Oil Companies 'Go Global' 8. Authoritarian State Capacity in a Liberal World Order