Chinas Low-Carbon Energy Relations With Emerging Markets - A Multi-Level Perspective

This book explores China's contemporary energy relations with emerging markets.Through the prisms of global low-carbon transition and power sector development, Ryan McLean utilises the multi-level perspective to build upon existing understandings of the Chinese renewables 'revolution' from a top-down interpretation.

List of contents

Introduction 1 China and the International Political Economy of Energy Transition: Present Debates, Future Trends 2 The Multi-Level Perspective and Socio-technical Transition: A China-Global South Framework 3 Chinese Renewable Industrialisation: Domestic-International Ramifications 4 A Sino-Global Green Realignment? The Diffusion of Solar and Wind Energy in Emerging Markets 5 Chinese Regime-Level Involvements: State-Led and Multilateral Financing in the Developing World 6 The Yin and Yang of Sino-Global South Energy Relations: Coal Power Incumbents in an Era of Transition 7 The Geopolitical Dimensions of Beijing's Green Energy Dominance: Cooperation and Conflict in a Multipolar World Conclusion Appendix: Interviews

About the author

Ryan McLean is an assistant professor at the Holy Spirit University of Kaslik (USEK) in Lebanon. His research interests are situated in the fields of contemporary Chinese energy policy and energy relations, Chinese political economy, and the global political economy of socio-technical energy transition.

Product details

• Authors: Ryan McLean
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.10.2025
• EAN: 9781032843131
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3284313-1
• No. of pages: 226
• Series: Routledge Explorations in Energy Studies
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; China, Climate Change, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Energy, SCIENCE / Energy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Energy Policy, Politics & government, Environmental Economics, Regional Studies, Political Economy, Politics and government, Regional / International studies, Alternative & renewable energy sources & technology, Civil engineering, surveying & building, Environmental policy & protocols, Development Studies, Alternative and renewable energy sources and technology, Business and the environment; ‘green’ approaches to business, Business & the environment, 'Green' approaches to business, Environmental policy and protocols, TRAVEL / Asia / East / China, Civil engineering, surveying and building