Analyses Of Legal Principles Of International Energy Cooperation Mechanism

The special characteristics of energy resources determine that its great importance in national,even world economic development.Meanwhile,its scarcity and universality in distribution require cooperation between countries,thus making it necessary to consummate the mechanism of international energy cooperation.At the present time,neither are there any worldwide compulsory treaties in energy cooperation,nor action guidelines which are usually called "soft laws".However,at the same time,with the rapid development of economic globalization,energy cooperation has already become a big issue which blocks the economic development and causes conflicts between countries from time to time.In this way,clarifying the basic principles in the mechanism of international energy cooperation,thus seeking recognition among countries maybe the practical and effective way in comparison.There are four chapters which constitute the main body of the whole thesis, except the introduction and the conclusion:Chapter One—Summarization on the mechanism of international energy cooperation.The content includes:discussing the meaning and intension of cooperation in energy cooperation in international scale by applying theories on international relations;pointing out that international energy cooperation mechanism contains the laws and regulations both multilaterally and nationally,as well as related policies;putting forward the reasons and important meanings of confirming the legal principles of energy cooperation mechanism.Chapter Two,Three,Five—Discussion on the three principles respectively: Energy Sovereignty Principle,Energy Sustainable Development Principle and Energy Security Principle.The contents are as follows:illustrations and analyses on the origins and intension of the three principles;the introduction of some important international organizations and countries' practices on energy cooperation,which prove that these principles have already been widely accepted by international society in practices.In the Conclusion part,after summing up the content of the thesis,the author introduces the present energy laws,regulations and policies of China briefly,while putting forward suggestions on the direction of the improvement,which can be regarded as the application of the basic principles discussed in this thesis.