As China is dependent on oil and gas imports to maintain its high growth rates, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and Central Asia have become increasingly important for the country’s economic development. In May 2014, China and Russia signed a new gas deal, for example, and in...

As China is dependent on oil and gas imports to maintain its high growth rates, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and Central Asia have become increasingly important for the country’s economic development. In May 2014, China and Russia signed a new gas deal, for example, and in...

Introduction: Eurasian integration, central Asia and the new geopolitics of energy / Roger E. Kanet and Matthew Sussex -- Part I. The geopolitics of Eurasia: growing east-west confrontation -- From retrenchment to revanchism--and back again? Russian grand strategy in the Eurasian heartland /...