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8 January - Energy Policy/Energy Markets in the Asia-Pacific: Analysing Recent Trends

United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (2016), Energy Scene and Trends in Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok: UN.

Asian Development Bank (2016), Asian Development Outlook 2016 Update: Meeting the Low Carbon Growth Challenge, Mandaluyong City, Philippines

Asian Development Bank (2017), Shaping Asia's Energy Future: Interview with IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol.

Bulman, D., Eden, M. and Nguyen, H., 2017. Transitioning from low-income growth to high-income growth: is there a middle-income trap?. Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, 22(1), pp.5-28.

Week 1 slides

15 January - China's Energy Policy Landscape

Green, N. and Kryman, M. (2014), The political economy of China's energy and climate paradox, Energy Research and Social Science, 4, pp. 135-138.

Betz, J. (2013), The Reform of China’s Energy Policies, German Institute of Global and Area Studies Working Paper, Hamburg: GIGA.

Thomson, E. and Boey, A. (2015), The role of oil and gas in China's energy strategy: an overview, Asia Pacific Business Review, 21(1), pp. 10-25.

Zhao, Z. et al. (2014), Challenges for China's energy conservation and emissions reduction, Energy Policy, 74, pp. 709-713.

Yao, L. and Chang, Y. (2015), Shaping China's energy security: The impact of domestic reforms, Energy Policy, 77, pp. 131-139.

Cai, B. et al. (2014), Energy's thirst for water in China, Environmental Science and Technology, 48(2), pp. 11760-11768.

Lin, Jiang et al, (2018), "Near-term trends in China's coal consumption", Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Yu, G. and Elsowrth, R. (2012), Turning the tanker: China's changing economic imperatives and its tentative look to emissions trading, Sandbag Report, available at sandbag. org.uk

Feng, Emily (2018), "Beijing axes coal and steel production curbs as economy slows", The Financial Times.

Zhang, Y. et al. (2014), Analysis of the distribution and evolution of energy supply and demand centers of gravity in China, Energy Policy, 49, pp. 695-706.

Yu, H. (2014), The ascendancy of state-owned enterprises in China: development, controversy and problems, Journal of Contemporary China, 23(85), pp. 161-182.

Forecasting Chinese energy demand and supply

China's air pollution heads west

APEC summit - how China cleared the air

Week 2 slides

EXTRA RESOURCES

22 January - China: Renewables and Going Out

Class Exercise

Week 3 slides

Lai, H. et al. (2015), "Rationale of internationalization of China's national oil companies: seeking natural resources, strategic assets or sectoral specialization?", Asia Pacific Business Review, 21(1), pp. 77-95.

Rolland, N. (2017), "China's 'Belt and Road Initiative': Underwhelming or Game-Changer?", The Washington Quarterly, 40(1), pp. 127-142.

Liao, J C. 'A good neighbor of bad governance? China’s energy and mining development in Southeast Asia.' Journal of Contemporary China 28.118 (2019): 575-591.

Hughes, L. and Meckling, J. (2017), "The politics of renewable energy trade: The US-China solar dispute", Energy Policy, 105, pp. 256-262.

Sidaway, J. D. and Woon, C. Y. (2017), "Chinese Narratives on 'One Belt, One Road' (一带一路) in Geopolitical and Imperial Contexts", The Professional Geographer, 69(4), pp. 591-603.

Ziegler, C.E. and Menon, R. (2014), "Neomercantilism and great power energy competition in Central Asia and the Caspian", Strategic Studies Quarterly, 8(2), pp. 17-41.

Wang, J. and Zou, J. (2014), "China goes to Africa: a strategic move?", Journal of Contemporary China, 23(90), pp. 1113-1132.

Lee, J. (2012), "China's geostrategic search for oil", The Washington Quarterly, 35(3), pp. 75-92.

Geall, Sam et al. (2018), "Solar energy for poverty alleviation in China: State ambitions, bureaucratic interests, and local realities", Energy Research &amp; Social Science, 41, pp. 238-248.

Dent, C.M. (2015), China's renewable energy development: policy, industry and business perspectives, Asia Pacific Business Review, 21(1), pp. 26-43.

Cai, Y. and Aoyama, Y. (2018), "Fragmented authorities, institutional misalignments, and challenges to renewable energy transition: A case study of wind power curtailment in China", Energy Research &amp; Social Science, 41, pp. 71-79.

Zhang, S. et al. (2014), "The erratic path of the low-carbon transition in China: evolution of solar PV policy", Energy Policy, 67, pp. 903-912.

Zhang, S. et al. (2018), "To what extent will China's ongoing electricity market reforms assist the integration of renewable energy?", Energy Policy, 114, pp. 165-172.

29 January - Japanese Energy Policy after Fukushima

Slides week 4

Exercise week 4: Japan

Can Japan's feed-in-tariff continue to promote growth in renewable energy?

LNG-dependent Japan tries to gain leverage over pricing

Power companies in Japan move to restrict solar

Behling, N. et al. (2019), "Regulating Japan's nuclear power industry to achieve zero-accidents", Energy Policy, 127, pp. 308-319.

Vivoda, Vlado and Geordan Graetz (2015), "Nuclear Policy and Regulation in Japan after Fukushima: Navigating the Crisis", Journal of Contemporary Asia, 45(3), pp. 490-509.

Fam, S.D. et al. (2014), Post-Fukushima Japan: the continuing nuclear controversy, Energy Policy, 68, pp. 199-205.

Duscha, V. et al. (2014), Costs of meeting international climate targets without nuclear power, Climate Policy, 14(3), pp. 327-352.

Hahn, E. (2014), The Japanese solar PV market and industry - business opportunities for European companies, EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation, Tokyo.

Chung, J. and Kim, E. (2018), "Public perception of energy transition in Korea: Nuclear power, climate change, and party preference", Energy Policy, 116, pp. 137-144.

Hayashi, M. and Hughes, L. (2013), The policy responses to the Fukushima nuclear accident and their effect on Japanese energy security, Energy Policy, 59, pp. 86-101.

Kingston, J. (2014), Abe's nuclear renaissance: energy politics in post-3.11 Japan, Critical Asian Studies, 46(3), pp. 461-484.

Motomura, M. (2014), Japan's need for Russian oil and gas: a shift in energy flows to the Far East, Energy Policy, 74, pp. 68-79.

Vivoda, V. (2014), Natural gas in Asia: trade, markets and regional institutions, Energy Policy, 74, pp. 80-90.

Wakiyama, T. (2014), Can a low-carbon-energy transition be sustained in post-Fukushima Japan? Assessing the varying impacts of exogenous shocks, Energy Policy, 73, pp. 654-666.

5 February - Energy and Resource Disputes in the East and South China Seas

Class Exercise : South China Sea Dispute Settlement Meeting

Week 5 slides

China building base near isles disputed with Japan, Kyodo says

China, Vietnam, Philippines collide amid escalating South China Sea tensions

Obama says US will defend Japan in island dispute with China

Rosyidin, M. (2019). The Dao of foreign policy: Understanding China’s dual strategy in the South China Sea. Contemporary Security Policy, 40(2), 214-238.

Scobell, A. (2018). The South China Sea and US-China Rivalry. Political Science Quarterly, 133(2), 199-225.

Morton, K. (2016), "China’s ambition in the South China Sea: is a legitimate maritime order possible?", International Affairs, 92(4), pp. 909-940.

McRae, D. (2019). Indonesia’s South China Sea Diplomacy: A Foreign Policy Illiberal Turn?. Journal of Contemporary Asia, 1-21.

Baldacchino, G. (2016), "Diaoyu Dao, Diaoyutai or Senkaku? Creative solutions to a festering dispute in the East China Sea from an ‘Island Studies’ perspective", Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 57(1), pp. 16-26.

Buszinsky, L. (2012), The South China Sea: oil, maritime claims, and U.S.-China strategic rivalry, The Washington Quarterly, 35(2), pp. 139-156.

De Castro, R. C. (2014), Linking spokes together: the Philippines gambit of harnessing the United States alliances' in its external balancing policy against an emergent China, Pacific Focus, 29(1), pp. 140-166.

Hong, Z. (2013), The South China Sea dispute and China-ASEAN relations, Asian Affairs, 44(1), pp. 27-43.

Geall, Sam et al. (2018), "Solar energy for poverty alleviation in China: State ambitions, bureaucratic interests, and local realities", Energy Research & Social Science, 41, pp. 238-248.

Cai, Y. and Aoyama, Y. (2018), "Fragmented authorities, institutional misalignments, and challenges to renewable energy transition: A case study of wind power curtailment in China", Energy Research & Social Science, 41, pp. 71-79.

Marantidou, V. (2014), Revisiting China's 'string of pearls' strategy: places with 'Chinese characteristics' and their security implications, Issue & Insights, Pacific Forum CSIS, 14(7).

Kennedy, Sean F. (2018), Indonesia’s energy transition and its contradictions: Emerging geographies of energy and finance, Energy Research & Social Science, 41, pp. 230-237.

Lucas, Adam (2016), "Stranded assets, externalities and carbon risk in the Australian coal industry: The case for contraction in a carbon-constrained world", Energy Research & Social Science, 11, pp. 53-66.