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Russian Energy Strategy And Transit Routes In Eastern Europe
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Book Synopsis Russian Energy Strategy and Transit Routes in Eastern Europe by : Alexander Kotlowski
Download or read book Russian Energy Strategy and Transit Routes in Eastern Europe written by Alexander Kotlowski and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The article considers perceptions of the new Russian energy policy in the oil and gas sector in Eastern Europe with a particular focus on the Polish perspective. The paper explains the regional reservations in Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, and the Baltic States to the Russo-German cooperation on the Nord Stream Pipeline project. Then, it summarises the view of the Russian-Ukrainian gas disputes and regional consequences of the disruptions in gas supply. The paper discusses Poland's energy security policy and conflicting expectations concerning the Yamal-Europe Gas Pipeline. The implications of Russian plans to reduce importance of the Druzhba oil pipeline are considered. Attempts to develop new energy alliances and a regional energy security policy towards Russia are further presented together with the joint energy projects in Eastern Europe such as Odessa-Brody, Amber Stream, Skanled and Baltic Pipe, as well as Mazeikiu Refinery or Ignalin nuclear plant.
Book Synopsis Russian Energy and Security up to 2030 by : Susanne Oxenstierna
Download or read book Russian Energy and Security up to 2030 written by Susanne Oxenstierna and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-03 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The challenges in Russia’s energy sector are changing. On the demand side, Europe is seeking to limit its dependence on Russian oil and gas, with the result that China and other Asian countries are likely to eventually become growing export markets for Russian energy. On the supply side, oil and gas fields in West Siberia are diminishing and in future Russia’s energy will have to come more from East Siberia and the Arctic, which will necessitate new infrastructure development and the employment of advanced technologies, which may increase Russia’s dependence on commercial partners from outside Russia. This book explores the challenges facing Russia’s energy sector and the resulting security implications. It includes a discussion of how far the Russian state is likely to continue to monopolise the energy sector, and how far competition from private and foreign companies might be allowed.
Book Synopsis Russia's Energy Policies by : Pami Aalto
Download or read book Russia's Energy Policies written by Pami Aalto and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Russia is an increasingly important player in global energy markets, yet its policies are under-researched and little understood. This collection represents an important and sophisticated contribution to the debate. While much of the commentary on Russian energy consists of generalizations about Russia's political strategy, this work lifts the lid and looks inside the process through which Russian energy policies are designed and implemented. It brings together essays by top specialists in the field, and makes a conscious effort to integrate the various disciplines of politics, economics and geography by developing a model of the "cognitive frames" through which the policy process is shaped. It addresses both domestic and international dimensions of the problem, and gives equal weight to traditional customers in Europe and new markets in Asia.' Peter Rutland, Wesleyan University, US 'The book explains Russian energy policies, instead of a policy. It portrays a picture with multiple policy drivers, including institutional, regional and federal, environmental and commercial. The study markedly improves our understanding of the multifaceted nature of Russian energy policy, a topical and complex issue. This is a highly commendable book that should be included in the reading lists of anyone with an interest in the role of energy in Russia's political economy or energy matters more generally.' Kim Talus, University College London, Australia Russia's vast energy reserves, and its policies towards them have enormous importance in the current geopolitical landscape. This important book examines Russia's energy policies on the national, interregional and global level. It pays particular attention to energy policy actors ranging from state, federal and regional actors, to energy companies and international financial actors and organizations. The book models the formation of Russia's energy policies in terms of how energy policy actors perceive and map their policy environment. The case studies cover federal, regional and environmental aspects of Russian energy policy, Russia's energy relations with Europe and the CIS, North East Asia, the globalization of Russian oil companies and the political economy of Russian energy. It is found that there are several concurrent energy policies in contemporary Russia, and that this situation is likely to continue. These policies are conducted primarily from the business frame perspective while notions of energy superpower Russia are found more ambiguous. Russia's Energy Policies will benefit advanced master's level students, doctoral students, researchers, policy-makers and practitioners. The book will be a great resource for advanced international relations, political economy, international business and globalisation courses alongside energy policy courses, as well as area studies courses on Russian, post-Soviet and European politics and environmental politics.
Book Synopsis The Russian energy sector: The way for future development by : Alexandra Wasilewski
Download or read book The Russian energy sector: The way for future development written by Alexandra Wasilewski and published by diplom.de. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Climate and Environmental Change, Political and Economical issues nowadays are forcing many countries to reconsider their way of energy production and consumption. Thus, the Russian Federation recently (2011) has completed major reconfiguration of the sector. This book is giving a comprehensive overview of the sector after the decade of restructuring. It determines political and economical development of the sector identifies technical capabilities, current and future energy matrix. Taking into the account, that the country has high amount of conventional resources, the author reviews energy efficiency potential and programs, capacities for penetration of innovative smart technologies and for expansion of environmentally friendly solutions for energy production and consumption. She also analyzes and concludes the range of technical and economical potential for renewable energy boost at the main land as well as at remote areas. As presented in the book, the result of the research gives a broad notion of possible directions of the Russian electricity sector development for the next 20 years.
Book Synopsis Relations Between Russia and Europe from the Perspective of Energy Strategy by : Jian Cheng
Download or read book Relations Between Russia and Europe from the Perspective of Energy Strategy written by Jian Cheng and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Russian Energy Strategy in the European Union, the Former Soviet Union Region, and China by : Stylianos A. Sotiriou
Download or read book Russian Energy Strategy in the European Union, the Former Soviet Union Region, and China written by Stylianos A. Sotiriou and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2014-12-11 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book places Eurasia in its entirety within a single explanatory framework and examines, for the first time to that extent, Russia as a Eurasian energy power in its affairs with the two main geopolitical players of the region, the EU and China. Part of this geopolitical space is the Former Soviet Union (FSU) region which shares deep historical-political ties with Russia and constitutes the necessary crossing for the latter’s natural gas supplies en route to the EU market.In this way, an energy triangle is established, with Russia at the top angle, the EU in the left angle, China in the right angle and the FSU region the median.Following the scheme, three bipolar relationships emerge, Russia-FSU region, Russia-EU and Russia-China, with each of them representing a different type of bilateral cooperation. In the first case there is an asymmetric relationship with one actor being overly powerful, in terms of energy, to impose its conditions, economic and political, on the other. In the second case there is a symmetric relationship with both actors having equal means of pressure at their disposal. Finally, in the third case there is balanced relationship with both actors trading on an equal basis. Within this framework, one of the dominant theoretical debates in the field of International Relations, that between Neorealism and Neoliberal Institutionalism (the so-called ‘Neo-Neo’ debate) seeks to shed light on the governing rationale beyond Putin’s Russia foreign energy policy vis-à-vis the FSU region, the EU and China.
Book Synopsis The Problem of Energy Transit in EU Energy Policy by : Mariia Rubtcova
Download or read book The Problem of Energy Transit in EU Energy Policy written by Mariia Rubtcova and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The paper deals with the problem of analysis of the problem of energy transit in EU energy policy. The issue of energy transit is one of the key topics of the EU energy policy, because EU energy market depends on the import of energy resources. From the point of view of transit and supply of energy resources to the EU, the situation was not the same. Since the 1990s, the geography of the transit routes has been becoming more complex and was more under the technological, economic and political risks. During the soviet times one transit route (i.e. pipeline transporting the gas from the USSR to the countries of western Europe) was fully controlled by the state-owned supplier which was transporting the gas extracted by the same company. The fuel was delivered to a hub on Western and Eastern border and sold to large European wholesale customers. Further, they would transport the gas through their own pipelines to the final customers in Europe. Such system survived after the destruction of the Soviet Union.However the control over the pipeline system, formerloy going through the territory of USSR, and afterwards located in a different state, passed to such states. In the meantime, the obligation of a steady supply of gas to the customers in the Western Europe in agreed time and volume remained with a Russian monopolist. The relationship with the transit state was not subject of the gas supply agreement. In 2000s such system proved to be inefficient and unstable. It could be demonstrated by the two Russia-Ukraine gas crises. In addition, the market reality has changed because of introducing the LNG supplies, renewable sources. In 2009 the Third Energy Package was adopted introducing the new functioning of the energy market based on competition principles. Three successively adopted energy packages of the EU (first - 1998, second - 2003, third - 2009) provided a gradual transition from centralized to liberal and competitive gas market. Prior to this, the main market participants were vertically integrated monopolies. The new architecture of the EU gas market began to diverge from the contractual structure of gas supplies to Western Europe, which has developed in the gas industry itself since the early 1960s.We made the conclusion the current situation provokes the need for development the new transit routes for the supply of Russian gas into Europe allowing to comply with the new market rules of the European Union.
Book Synopsis Transnational Gas Markets and Euro-Russian Energy Relations by : Andrei V. Belyi
Download or read book Transnational Gas Markets and Euro-Russian Energy Relations written by Andrei V. Belyi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This books analyses how transnational gas markets have evolved and impacted on EU-Russia energy relations. It examines how the political conflict surrounding Ukraine has accelerated a negative interdependence in the region, with energy interdependence increasingly used as an instrument of diplomacy.
Book Synopsis Russian Far East in the System of Transportation Links Between Europe and Asia by : Zhanna Petrunina
Download or read book Russian Far East in the System of Transportation Links Between Europe and Asia written by Zhanna Petrunina and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of the study is to analyze the current state and prospects of Russian railways operating in the conditions of international integration, to identify the factors of mutual interest and possible risks of multilateral cooperation in transit using the potential of the Russian Federation. The outlets to the Baltic Sea and the Sea of Japan allow Russian government to suggest using Trans-Siberian and Baikal-Amur railways for Europe-Asia transport routes. The authors consider the most urgent problems of implementing the existing plans: the radical modernization of the railway infrastructure, the use of new technologies and the revision of the organization of transportation. To solve these problems the Russian leadership has offered and implemented various development programs. It also is trying to decide a point of attracting foreign capital. Special attention is paid to the cooperation between the Russian Federation and North Korea, South Korea and China. The implementation of joint projects will enhance regional cooperation and promote a safety zone for their participants. The authors conclude that the Trans-Siberian and Baikal-Amur railways retain their strategic importance as transportation links between Asia and Europe.
Book Synopsis Setting the Agenda in the Caspian Basin by : Adam N. Stulberg
Download or read book Setting the Agenda in the Caspian Basin written by Adam N. Stulberg and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Russian Energy Policy Toward Neighboring Countries by :
Download or read book Russian Energy Policy Toward Neighboring Countries written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Russian oil and natural gas industries are key players in the global energy market, particularly in Europe and Eurasia. Another trend has been the concentration of these industries in the hands of the Russian government. This latter phenomenon has been accompanied by an authoritarian political system, in which former intelligence officers play key roles. Russian firms have tried to purchase a controlling stake in pipelines, ports, storage facilities, and other key energy assets of European countries. They need these assets to transport energy supplies to lucrative western European markets, as well as to secure greater control over the domestic markets of the countries of the region. In several cases where assets were sold to non-Russian firms, Russian firms cut off energy supplies to the facilities. Russia has also tried to build new pipelines to circumvent infrastructure that it does not control. Another objective Russia has pursued has been to eliminate the energy subsidies former Soviet republics have received since the fall of the Soviet Union, including by raising the price these countries pay for natural gas to world market prices. It is not completely clear whether the pursuit of Russian foreign policy objectives is the primary explanation for the actions of its energy firms. Few would disagree in principle that the elimination of subsidies to post-Soviet countries is a sound business decision, even if questions have been raised about the timing of such moves. Even the pursuit of multiple pipelines can be portrayed as a business decision. On the other hand, many countries of the region are concerned that Russia may use their energy dependency to interfere in their domestic affairs or to force them to make foreign policy concessions. Countries of the region also fear that by controlling energy infrastructure in their countries, Russian energy firms are able to manipulate the internal political situation by favoring certain local businessmen and politicians.
Download or read book Red Gas written by P. Högselius and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-12-28 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book applies a systems and risk perspective on international energy relations, author Per Högselius investigates how and why governments, businesses, engineers and other actors sought to promote – and oppose– the establishment of an extensive East-West natural gas regime that seemed to overthrow the fundamental logic of the Cold War.
Book Synopsis The Transit Dimension of EU Energy Security by : Katja Yafimava
Download or read book The Transit Dimension of EU Energy Security written by Katja Yafimava and published by Oxford Institute for Energy Studies. This book was released on 2011-11-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an analysis of how EU transit security is affected by the governance structures of the Eurasian gas network and by asymmetrical power relations between its actors, in particular between Russia and western CIS states (Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova) and their national gas companies, and suggests how transit security threats can be reduced.
Book Synopsis Energy Policy of the European Union by : Johannes Pollak
Download or read book Energy Policy of the European Union written by Johannes Pollak and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-07 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This broad-ranging text provides an analysis and assessment of the European Union's energy policy. It examines the components of the internal energy market alongside energy policy and politics on the international stage, and in doing so outlines the increasing importance of this global issue.
Book Synopsis Belarus: Oil, Gas, Transit Pipelines and Russian Foreign Energy Policy by : Margarita M. Balmaceda
Download or read book Belarus: Oil, Gas, Transit Pipelines and Russian Foreign Energy Policy written by Margarita M. Balmaceda and published by GMB Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2006 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Belarus relies on Russia for about 85% of its total energy needs, while Russia needs Belarus' oil and gas pipelines to export its supplies to Western Europe. How will energy exports from Russia and Belarus' transit capabilities impact Western Europe if this interdependent relationship ends, either through political changes in Belarus or if Russia ends its energy subsidies to Belarus? This report looks at transit, infrastructure and investment issues and analyzes both the state of the current infrastructure, as well as the possibilities this transit opens to Western investors, particularly as the Yamal Pipeline nears completion. In addition, it looks at the current conflict between Belarus and Russian investors for control of the country's gas transit system and oil refineries. This series of reports establishes for the first time the confluence of Russian foreign policy with the acquisition of foreign energy assets by Russian entities. Nine specific country profiles focus on the oil, gas, electricity and nuclear power industries. Each report written by an author of international standing, explains how Russian foreign energy downstream mergers and acquisitions are transpiring to consolidate the new Russian empire.
Book Synopsis The Politics of Energy and Memory between the Baltic States and Russia by : Agnia Grigas
Download or read book The Politics of Energy and Memory between the Baltic States and Russia written by Agnia Grigas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1990s, Baltic-Russian relations have been amongst the most contentious on the European continent. Energy security concerns, historical legacies, and the status of Russian minorities have all proved key flash points. Baltic-Russian relations have been described as a 'litmus test' of Russia's willingness to leave behind its imperialist ambitions; simultaneously the policies of Tallinn, Riga or Vilnius towards Russia can have a direct impact on EU-Russian and NATO-Russian relations. The Baltic states share similar histories and resources, and face the same geopolitical challenges. All are dependent on Russia for energy yet, as this fascinating study reveals, they have pursued very different foreign policies towards their powerful neighbour. In The Politics of Energy and Memory between the Baltic States and Russia Agnia Grigas provides an unprecedented analysis of contemporary Baltic-Russian relations and identifies the causal factors that drive the foreign policies of the Baltic states in such divergent routes. Supported by case studies on the oil and gas sectors as well as the tug of history, this book is an invaluable resource for scholars and policy makers.
Book Synopsis The Politics of the Black Sea Region by : Carol Weaver
Download or read book The Politics of the Black Sea Region written by Carol Weaver and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-24 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Black Sea region is a dynamic and complex area in which many national and international actors have key interests, including Russia and the US. The European Union stretches to the sea’s western coast where it meets former Soviet territory as well as EU candidate Turkey. Regional tensions include those over NATO enlargement, a US anti-ballistic missile system, access to the Black Sea, democratization, spheres of interest and the conflict zones of Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Nagorno-Karabakh and Transnistria. In addition, the region’s close proximity to the Caspian basin offers the prospect of alternative energy resources and routes to western states. The Politics of the Black Sea Region: EU Neighbourhood, Conflict Zone or Future Security Community? explores and examines the many diverse political, security and economic interests that affect the region and the possible outcomes for it. By reviewing the wider history and examining the political systems and policies of the Black Sea nations and organizations as well as analyzing current tensions and future trends, it provides an invaluable, comprehensive and unique political guide to this fascinating area.
