The GCC-Russia-China LNG Triangle: The Role of Transnational Knowledge Networks and Epistemic Communities to Govern Complex Systems

Abstract

This paper analyzes and discusses the prospects for GCC-Russia-China transnational knowledge networks and epistemic communities in natural gas and liquified natural gas (LNG) production and trade. The premise of the article is that transnational knowledge relations between academia, government, business, civil society and wider facilitate political, economic, technological and strategic relations between countries. This article looks at the role and potential of transnational knowledge relations and epistemic communications between the GCC, Russia (focus on Russian Arctic) and China in the field of natural gas and LNG production and trade. In addition, the article will briefly expand on these transnational, transdisciplinary knowledge relations to include Japan, South Korea and other Arctic LNG producers as Norway and Alaska.