Current Research and Forthcoming Publications

C P Andrews-Speed, X Liao and P Cameron, `Energy Co-operation and the Enhancement of Regional Security in North-East Asia’.

P Cameron is currently participating in a multi-disciplinary project that investigates the supply of hydrocarbon resources from countries of the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean to the EU, on behalf of the EU Commission, the Observatoire Mediterrannee de l’Energie and the European University Institute. His work examines the legal, regulatory and institutional aspects of this. Expected completion date: July 2003.

X Liao, `Oil and Sino-Japanese Relations: Beyond Economic Co-operation’, a research paper, partly sponsored by the Japan Foundation Endowment Committee.

X Liao, WoodMackenzie lunch meeting, 24 June 2004, Edinburgh, on “variables within the Chinese energy policy process”

X Liao, Wilton Park Conference on Reducing Tension in Northeast Asia, 4-7 October 2004, Sussex, on “The political aspects of regional energy co-operation: the case of China and Japan”

X Liao, IRIS Seminar “La Strategie Energetique de la Chine”, 14 April 2005, held by Institut de relations internationles et stragegiques, Paris, on “Economic growth and energy resources management: a double challenge for China in the 21st century”

X Liao, The School of East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield, Wednesday seminar series on 11 May 2005, on “regionalism and energy: the case of China and Japan”

P Stevens, The Aftermath of the Military Action in Iraq. This is concerned with trying to assess how the aftermath of military action will affect energy supplies from the Middle East. It also seeks to understand how these developments will impact more generally on the international oil market.