Dr Janet Xuanli Liao
Lecturer in International Relations and Energy Security
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Book & Book Chapters
- The Politics of Oil behind Sino-Japanese Energy Security Strategies, Asia Paper, Stockholm: The Institute for Security and Development Policy, March 2008.
Since the mid-1990s, energy security has been one of the top issues in Sino-Japanese relations. However, it is insufficient to illustrate the tensions in the bilateral relationship through energy alone. This paper argues that to China and Japan, political concerns have always been in command over energy security strategies.
- Chinese Foreign Policy Think Tanks and China’s Policy Towards Japan, The Chinese University Press, Hong Kong, March 2006
Being the first research of its kind, this book has studied the role of Chinese foreign policy think tanks in China's Japan policy-making process over the past fifty years. Applying decision-making theories as the framework, the book has examined the style change in China's foreign policy decision-making and the role of Chinese international relations think tanks through empirical case-studies.
- Strategic implications of China’s energy needs, Adelphi Paper 346, Oxford University Press, July 2002 (co-author with P. Andrews-Speed and R. Dannreuther)
- “The Driving Forces behind the Sino-Japanese Energy Competition”, Harvard Asia Pacific Review, Vol. 8 No. 1, Summer 2005, pp. 9-11.
- “The petroleum factor in Sino-Japanese relations: beyond energy cooperation”, International Relations of Asian-Pacific Advanced Access, pp. 1-21, 3 March 2006.
- “Searching for energy security: the political ramifications of China’s international energy policy”, China Environment Series, Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Issue 5, 2002, pp. 13-28 (co-author with P. Andrews-Speed and R. Dannreuther).
- “Multilateral Energy Cooperation in Northeast Asia: Promise or Mirage?” Oxford Energy Forum, February 2005, pp. 13-17 (co-author with P. Andrews-Speed and P. Stevens).
- "A Silk Road for Oil: Sino-Kazakh Energy Diplomacy", The Brown Journal of World Affairs, Vol. XII, Issue II, Winter/Spring, 2006, pp. 39-51.
- Energy & Geopolitics: A European and a Chinese Perspective from Foreign Voices, No. 4 November 2006
- “Central Asia and China’s Energy Security”, China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly, November 2006, pp. 61-69
- “The petroleum factor in Sino-Japanese relations: beyond energy cooperation”, International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, Vol.7 No.1, January 2007, pp. 23-46.
- “Sino-Japanese energy security and regional stability: the case of the East China Sea gas exploration”, East Asia: An International Quarterly, January 2008.
- Book Review on China and the Global Energy Crisis: Development and Prospects for China's Oil and Natural Gas, by Tatus Kambara and Christopher Howe. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2007, The China Journal, No 59, January 2008.
- "Chinese Foreign Policy Think Tanks and China’s Energy Policy in Post-‘9.11’ Era”, for the centre asie, institut francais des relations internationales May 2003;
- “Multilateral Energy Cooperation in Northeast Asia”, written for the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Japan, Feb 2004 (co-author with P. Andrews-Speed and R. Dannreuther)
- “China’s Energy-Led Foreign Policy”, in China: A Five Year Outlook, Oxford: Oxford Analytica, Sept 2005, pp. 88-95.
- “Natural Resource Policy and Resource Diplomacy”, sponsored by the National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR), USA, December 2005 Part 2 of a report entitled The PRC’s Global Pursuit for Natural Resources (co-author with P. Andrews-Speed and C. Rogers).
- “Security of International Oil and Gas”, ESRC Consultancy Project, CEPMLP research team-member.