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11 Rev. Int'l L. & Pol. 189 (2015)
The Chinese State, Oil and Energy Security

handle is hein.journals/rinlp11 and id is 189 raw text is: The Chinese State, Oil and Energy Security Monique Taylor, Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2014, 213 Pages. Nigar SHIRALIZADE* China - an assiduous rising power of the new world order, involved in an in- tensive energy policy in the last twenty years in order to maintain its develop- ing economy, which is exposed to several threats due to insufficient resources. The book The Chinese State, Oil and Energy Security by Monique Taylor re- searches China's oil policy from a historical development point of view, taking into consideration the impact of governmental policy on the economy, which triggered the transformation from a centrally planned economy to a market economy. According to the author, the study researched governmental ar- rangements within the oil sector throughout decades, its influences on energy policy articulation and implementation, and the reflection on China's domes- tic and international behavior in downstream and upstream oil activities. There are eight chapters in the book, the first three chapters comprise a theoretical approach toward a party-state centered oil policy, the role of the sectorial governance and state capacity, and, moreover, interplay of elite and bureaucratic power. The final five chapters investigate the case empirically, according to periods of changes in the political perception of energy security within the Chinese government, transformation from self-sufficiency to de- pendency, and reforms in ameliorating difficulties to overcome the burden of accessing global markets with its own companies. The author brilliantly asserts Chinese oil policy phases: autocratic (1949-1977), limited opening - the decentralization and corporatization of market-oriented players - (1978- Middle East Technical University, Department of International Relations. E-Mail: nigar- shirelizade@rambler.ru 189