This course conducts a systematic survey at how a rising China mobilizes domestic resources and engages the international system to pursue and protect its foreign energy interests. It is organized under four overarching questions: 1) what shapes the foreign energy policy in China, who formulates it, and how? 2) How do the “two Chinasâ€ù—represented by the government of China and corporate China—implement the country’s foreign energy policy? 3) How do the “two Chinasâ€ù tackle various challenges for the country’s foreign energy interests? And, 4) what does the way China pursues and protects its foreign energy interests tell us about the country’s role and impact in the international system? To help class members navigate these complex, cross-cutting topics and foster innovative, rigorous scholarship, this course will base each discussion on empirically tested analytical frameworks drawn from international relations theory, comparative politics, and the business management literature.