Nowadays the role that energy plays in international affairs is not only in the military’s role, we can see how energy is a strong part of diplomatic strategies for many countries, the result of economic and energy security depends on energy prosperity, thus the importance of energy has been growing rapidly. Since the 1970’s, energy as such has become then most important part of national economies, social and political problems, largely determining the different development processes, global and regionally, and at the same time affecting national security and political stability.
The importance of energy lies on the need of energy supply and high prices; interest for this topic can be linked to the terrorism threat, political instability in some countries that export energy for example the nationalist ideology raising in some countries that interrupt drastically the continues flow of energy exports, geopolitical problems, or sharp increase of hydrocarbon consumptions.
There are many areas where the cooperation between China and Bolivia is working, and in the energy area we can see the interest of China and the interest of Bolivia in working together to develop this area. Since 2006, China has been increasing the ties with the Bolivian government, approaching to the National interests of the current Bolivian government on developing energy and industrializing the natural resources that Bolivia possesses. On the other hand China has been facing a high rate of economic growth making it able to cooperate with any nation or multiple nations at the same time in many fields. Moreover, energy is a topic inside the Chinese foreign policy toward South America as its rapid economic growth directly influences the consumption of energy. Nowadays China’s national market demand for fuel and energy has surpassed the national productions making China a big consumer and international hunter for energy resources in order to continue with the national economic growth of China in the next years.
Every country pursues national security, which includes a complex perception of not only military capabilities or development tools, but also economic growth. The force that stimulates economic development of the state appears nowadays to be the energy resources; energy security greatly enhances national security of one state, thus energy cooperation becomes an issue of high importance in a globalized world, what are the contact points, requirements and implications of the energy cooperation between Bolivia and China? This issue will be explored in this thesis.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:CHENGCHI/G0097253036 |
| Creators | 麥塔納, Maydana Parra, Mike Richard |
| Publisher | 國立政治大學 |
| Source Sets | National Chengchi University Libraries |
| Language | 英文 |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
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