China's Energy Geopolitics: The Shanghai Cooperation Organization and Central Asia

China’s need for energy has become a driving factor in contemporary world politics and a precondition for sustaining China’s continuing high economic growth. Accordingly, Chinese energy policy has been a political and strategic rather than market-driven policy. This book focuses on the need of a stable and secure investment environment which is necessary for the energy provision of China from the Central Asian states.

The author argues that the institutionalization of the Shanghai Cooperatio...