Central European attitudes towards Chinese energy investments: The cases of Poland, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2016.09.035" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.enpol.2016.09.035</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Central European attitudes towards Chinese energy investments: The cases of Poland, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic

Original language description

This article builds on Europe-wide knowledge of EU-China energy investment relations and discusses the cases of three Central European countries' attitudes towards Chinese energy investments. It focuses on how Chinese investments are perceived compared to investments from other countries, and how the energy sector is perceived compared to other sectors. Media analysis, interviews with experts, and semi structured questionnaires were used as data sources. It was discovered that these three countries dislike foreign control over strategic assets and Chinese energy investments are seen as falling into this category. The discourse frames on the general level fluctuate between beneficial and threatening at both the political and economic levels, yet the benefits are seen as greater than any potential threats in all three countries. Energy security frames are only just beginning to be discussed within national discourses about Chinese energy investments. In Poland, the Chinese presence in the energy sector is framed as an issue of availability, affordability, and efficiency, and is related to Polish plans for maximizing efficient use of local coal resources. In the Czech Republic and Slovakia, China is often perceived ideologically and only the energy frame of environmental stewardship is present in a minor way.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50601 - Political science

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Energy Policy

ISSN

0301-4215

e-ISSN

1873-6777

Volume of the periodical

101

Issue of the periodical within the volume

February 2017

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

711-722

UT code for WoS article

000392768800069

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85010644710