Geopolitics of Energy Security in Central Asia: Implications for India

2015 ◽  
pp. 103-124
Author(s):  
Nalin Kumar Mohapatra
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Energy Security

Central Asia's Role in China's Energy Security

2019 ◽  
pp. 167-191
Author(s):  
Paulo Afonso Brardo Duarte
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Energy Security ◽  
Energy Supply ◽  
Energy Deficit ◽  
Potential Contribution ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Global Energy ◽  
Central Asian ◽  
One Belt One Road ◽  
Central Asian Countries

Central Asia has gained extraordinary importance in recent years in the framework of global energy security. China is the most significant example of a power that looks to its periphery as a viable option for energy supply. In Central Asia, Chinese companies are dynamic players having even broken the long Soviet and Russian monopoly over regional pipelines. This chapter examines the importance of the region within China's energy security, while not overlooking the potential contribution of the China-Pakistan economic corridor in the energy transit. In addition, Central Asia is likely to help China reduce the energy deficit in Xinjiang, through the import of hydroelectricity generated in Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. Although Central Asia's contribution to global energy security is low, it matters in a context of energy diversification, in which China's One Belt One Road brought a more promising dynamics to the cooperation between Beijing and Central Asian countries.

China and Japan’s Energy Security Approaches in the Central Asia

China Report ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 267-283
Author(s):  
Elaheh Koolaee ◽  
Mandana Tishehyar
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Energy Security

China's Energy Security and Eurasian Diplomacy: The Case of Turkmenistan

Politics ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 147-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc Lanteigne
Keyword(s):  
Natural Gas ◽  
Central Asia ◽  
Energy Security ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Leadership Transition ◽  
Economic Interests ◽  
Central Asian ◽  
Energy Trade ◽  
Trading Partners ◽  
Energy Diplomacy

China has made significant strides in developing energy diplomacy in the former Soviet states of Central Asia in the name of diversifying its trading partners. However, the case of Turkmenistan, currently undergoing a complicated leadership transition, provides evidence of China's potential limitations in engaging Central Asia in the hopes of securing nearby sources of oil and gas. The ongoing problems of post-Soviet governance in Ashgabat and increasing competition for Turkmen natural gas suggest that Beijing may have to better define its economic interests there and allow for increased regional co-operation building to better manage its Central Asian energy trade.

Central Asia and energy security

Asian Affairs ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gawdat Bahgat
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Energy Security

Water, Food, and Energy Security: An Elusive Search for Balance in Central Asia

2013 ◽  
Vol 27 (11) ◽  
pp. 3959-3979 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shokhrukh-Mirzo Jalilov ◽  
Saud A. Amer ◽  
Frank A. Ward
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Energy Security

Petropolitics and Pipeline Diplomacy in Central Asia: Can India Afford to Wait in the Wings?

2019 ◽  
Vol 75 (4) ◽  
pp. 472-489
Author(s):  
Ramakrushna Pradhan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Central Asia ◽  
Energy Security ◽  
The United States ◽  
Energy Resources ◽  
Bottom Line ◽  
Energy Factor ◽  
Research Article ◽  
Oil And Natural Gas ◽  
Great Game

The fight for hegemony in Central Asia has existed for ages. Strategically placed between two nuclear powers—Russia and China—and geopolitically located at the heart of Eurasia, Central Asia has always remained in global limelight. Even after the disintegration of the USSR, the geopolitical importance of Central Asia never waned down, instead emerged as a grand chessboard for regional and extra-regional player for the immense opportunities it has offered in the form of widely untapped natural resources and geostrategic leverages. Importantly, it has emerged as the latest geological landscape for the energy crunch countries as potentially new and non-OPEC source of oil and natural gas. In the quest for energy security and diversity of supply sources by the energy consumers, the heartland region has witnessed a new great game in the scramble for resources. This accentuated struggle for oil and energy in the region has further led to aggressive foreign policy formulations and strategic calculation by countries like the United States, China, European Union, Japan, Israel, Iran, Pakistan and India, to which many now call as the New Great Game for not just controlling but administering the energy resources of the region. The bottom line of the New Great Game unlike the previous version is essentially played out around petropolitics and pipeline diplomacy. It is in this context this research article makes a modest attempt to examine the energy factor in the geopolitics of Central Asia and tries to figure out the position of India in the epic quest for oil in the traditional bastion of Russia and the new grand chessboard of China and the United States.

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