Chapter 1Introduction
Chapter 2Grand Strategy
Chapter 3Energy Security and Oil Security
Chapter 4The Oil Security Approach of the United States
Chapter 5The Oil Security Approach of China
Chapter 6Oil and the Clash of Grand Strategy
Chapter 7Conclusion
Ryan Opsal is an energy policy manager for the State of Maryland and adjunct professor in international relations at Florida International University.
The survival of any country as a functioning society depends on
having reliable sources of energy. Preserving access to energy is
not simply an economic matter but a question of grand strategy.
This informative book focuses on how China and the United States,
both large importers of oil, secured their energy supplies between
1992 and 2013. It compares the evolution of both countries’
strategies for guaranteeing oil security through shifts in policy
and advances in technology. Opsal claims that the United States is
well ahead of China in oil security on many fronts, but China is
rapidly catching up.
*Foreign Affairs*
Opsal emphasizes the importance of energy security in the grand
strategy of great powers. Framed within grand strategy theory, the
author focuses exclusively on oil and lucidly analyzes how
divergent state structures, societies, market practices, and
competing geostrategic objectives lead China and the U.S to secure
supply via radically different state and market policies: China
relies on a centralized, state-driven, neo-mercantilist approach;
and the U.S.A. depends on a decentralized, market-driven,
neoliberal method. These competing practices and geostrategic
objectives from radically different societies may prove difficult
to coexist peacefully. This is a superbly argued and written book
that merits serious reflection.
*Félix E. Martín, associate professor of politics and international
relations, Florida International University*
American and Chinese Energy Security is an astutely analyzed and
historically insightful investigation of how questions of energy
security have fundamentally informed American and Chinese
formulations of grand strategy. Opsal convincingly argues that
oil-based security dilemmas will place these two nations on a
collision course that will shape global geopolitics for decades to
come.
*Tyler Priest, University of Iowa*
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