China’s Energy Security and Relations with Petrostates: Oil as an Idea

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Title Page
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Dedication
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
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Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Chapter 1 What do you imagine when you think about oil?
Chapter 2 Discursive politics of energy and energy paradigms: Theoretical framework and methodology
	Realism vs. liberalism: The dichotomy of conflict and cooperation in the study of international energy politics
	An alternative: Critical constructivism
	Discourse analysis and texts: “From poststructuralist islands to the faraway shores of constructivism”
Chapter 3 China’s energy security and discursive politics of energy
	Evolution of China’s energy strategy from the 1950s to the 2000s: “Self-reliance,” “going out,” and “scientific development”
	China’s discursive politics of energy
	China’s energy paradigm: Chasing Daqing
Chapter 4 China–Russia energy relations
	Russia’s discursive politics of energy
	Russia’s energy paradigm: A discursive bipolar disorder
	China–Russia energy relations
	Xi’s “China dream” and Putin’s “energy superpower”
Chapter 5 China–Kazakhstan energy relations
	Kazakhstan’s discursive politics of oil
	Kazakhstan’s oil: A blessing and a threat
	Constructing Kazakhstan as a petrostate: Oil rent and Nazarbayevism
	“We” and “they” in Kazakhstan’s discursive politics of energy
	Kazakhstan’s energy paradigm: Nazarbayev’s petrostate
	China–Kazakhstan energy dialogue
	Energy cooperation between Xi Jinping’s China and the post-Nazarbayev Kazakhstan
Chapter 6 Conclusions: Examining oil as a discourse
	Energy (in)securities and discursive politics of oil
	China’s quest for oil
	Limitations and directions for future research
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