Introduction : tapping global energy stocks : energy security challenges for the European Union and China / M. Parvizi Amineh & Yang Guang -- EU-China energy relations and geopolitics : the challenges for cooperation / Frank Umbach -- Russia's emerging place in the Eurasian hydrocarbon energy complex / Robert M. Cutler -- The energy policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran towards the European Union and China / Eva Patricia Rakel -- Crouching tiger, hidden dragon : India, China, and the dynamics of energy security / S. Philip Sen -- China's oil supply strategy: the case of Saudi-Arabia and Sudan / Chen Mo -- China's renewable energy development targets and implementation effect analysis / Shi Dan -- China's energy security: increasing dependence on foreign oil and solutions favored by Beijing students and researchers / Eduard B. Vermeer -- Japan's evolving nuclear energy policy and the possibility of Japan-China nuclear energy cooperation / Raquel Shaoul -- Transition management and institutional reform : the case of a transition to hydrogen as a motor fuel in the Netherlands / Daniel Scholten.