Includes bibliographical references (p. [449]-478) and index.

Preliminary Material / M. Parvizi Amineh and Guang Yang -- Introduction: China’s and the European Union’s Energy Security Challenges in the Twenty-First Century / Mehdi P. Amineh and Guang Yang -- The Central Eurasian Hydrocarbon Energy Complex: From Central Asia to Central Europe / Robert M. Cutler -- Competing for Caspian Energy Resources: Russia’s and China’s Energy (Foreign) Policies and the Implications for the EU’s Energy Security / Frank Umbach -- Elite change and Foreign Policy in Iran Since the Presidency of Ahmadinejad: Relations with the US, the EU and China / Eva Patricia Rakel -- China’s Energy Foreign Policy Towards Iran: Domestic Factors and Geopolitical Challenges / Guoqing Yu -- China’s Energy Foreign Policy Towards the Caspian Region: The Case of Kazakhstan / Huirong Zhao and Hongwei Wu -- Energy Ties and the China-Angola Strategic Partnership / Mo Chen -- Energy Cooperation between China and Latin America: The Case of Venezuela / Hongbo Sun -- Japan’s Energy Security Policy Towards Iran (1979–2010) / Raquel Shaoul -- Energy Transition Governance Paradigms and their Impact on Green Innovation Processes / Daniel Scholten -- Development Characteristics of the Solar Energy Industry and Related Policies in China / Xiaohua Li -- The Brazilian Biofuel Industry: Achievements and Geopolitical Challenges / Mairon G. Bastos Lima -- Slowing down China’s Hydropower Development: Problems of Pricing, Resettlement and Ecology / Eduard B. Vermeer -- Global Energy Governance in the Twenty-First Century: Challenges and Opportunities / Joyeeta Gupta -- Bibliography / M. Parvizi Amineh and Guang Yang -- Index / M. Parvizi Amineh and Guang Yang.

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Secure Oil and Alternative Energy: The Geopolitics and Energy Paths of China and the European Union is the follow-on study to the well-received The Globalization of Energy: China and the European Union (Brill 2010). While intensive cooperation between China and the EU in the fields of energy use, environmental protection, and sustainability is highly needed, the question remains unanswered how this cooperation could be organized. Since the proven gas and oil reserves lay outside China and the EU, they are both facing geopolitical challenges to energy security in the foreseeable future. This volume puts the geopolitical implementation of China’s and the EU’s energy security into the context of (a) geo-economic systems in a global scale including the Central Eurasian, the Middle East and Africa hydrocarbon energy complex and (b) the emergence of a geo-economic energy network spreading from China to Western Europe. The edited volume consists of 14 high-quality papers on topics announced in the title of the volume: the geo-politics of energy-supply security, alternative sources of energy, energy transition and, at the global level, energy governance. Prof. Dr. Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer, Director Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel, Forschungs-und Studienstätte für Europäische Kulturgeschichte Germany