Russian Energy Security and Foreign Policy

Description

This book provides an original and thoroughly academic analysis of the link between Russian energy and foreign policies in Eurasia, as well as offering an interpretation of Russia’s coherence on the international stage, seeking to understand Russia and explain its behaviour.

The authors analyse both energy and foreign policies together, in order to better grasp their correlation and gain deeper understanding of broader geopolitical issues in Eurasia at a time when things could go either way—towards producers or towards consumers. Developing the concept of ‘energy deterrence’ which aims to fuel uncertainty in Russia’s relations with its partners, as well as projecting its overall power on the international scene, this provocative volume seeks to stimulate debate on this very important issue.

Assessing the weight that energy has in Russia’s foreign policy and in its pursuit of power on the international stage, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of international relations, energy politics, geopolitics and Russian and Central Asian Studies.

Contents

1. Introduction: The Restoration of Russian Power: Toward an Energy-Based Deterrence? Thomas Gomart and Adrian Dellecker Part 1: Energy’s link to Domestic and Foreign Policies 2. Oil and Gas Production in Central Asia: The Impact of Infrastructures, Institutions and Policies William Tompson 3. Energy Security and Central Asia: A Comparison of the EU’s, Germany’s, Russia’s and China’s Energy (Foreign) Policies Frank Umbach 4. How to Get a Pipeline Built: The Theory and the Caspian Reality Jérôme Guillet 5. Prospects for New Caspian Natural Gas and Oil Export Routes Maureen Crandall Part 2: Russian Energy and Political Relations with CIS Net Exporters 6. Russia and Turkmenistan: What Kind of Partnership? Vladimir Milov 7. Russia and Kazakhstan: A Regional and Global Partnership Martha Brill Olcott 8. Uzbekistan: Central Asian Energy Key Andrew Monaghan 9. The Uncertain Trajectory of Russia-Azerbaijan Relations in the Multiple-Pipelines Era Pavel Baev Part 3: Russian Export Policy and Relations with Transit Countries 10. Russia’s grip on Energy Infrastructure and the Link to Foreign Policy Leonid Grigoriev 11. The Russia-Georgia-Azerbaijan Triangle: The Role of Energy in Foreign Relations John Roberts 12. Russia-Belarus: A Breakable Union Rainer Lindner, F. Garbe, F. Hett 13. Russia-Ukraine (author tbc) 14.Conclusion Thomas Gomart and Adrian Dellecker

Author Bio

Adrian Dellecker is Research Assistant at the Russia/NIS Center (Ifri, Paris) and holds a Masters degree from the University of Sussex (UK). His thesis dealt with the increasing rivalry between the European Union and the United States in setting the norms and regulations of the international trading system (with particular emphasis on energy, labor and environmental regulation), and on the repercussion this rivalry has on the participating market economies. Adrian Dellecker’s current work focuses on Russian bilateral energy relations, particularly in Central Asia and the Caspian Sea region, as well as the EU-Russia energy dialogue. He also works on the Center’s transatlantic segment. Forthcoming publications: "Energy: Is Russia a Legislating Power?", Politique étrangère 4/2007, and "Russia’s Algerian Adventure" (with Thomas Gomart).

Thomas Gomart is head of the Russian/NIS Center at Ifri (French Institute of International Relations, Paris), and the editor of the trilingual electronic collection Russie.Nei.Visions. Prior to joining Ifri, Dr. Gomart was a Lavoisier Fellow at the State Institute for International Relations (University-MGIMO, Moscow), Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Security Studies (European Union – Paris) and Marie Curie Fellow at the Department of War Studies (King’s College, London). Dr. Thomas Gomart also teaches at the Military Academy of Saint-Cyr. Recent publications include: "Paris and the EU-Russia Dialogue: A New Impulse with Nicholas Sarkozy?", Russie.Nei.Visions No. 23, October 2007; "Russie: espace-temps perdu, espace-temps retrouvé", Politique étrangère Hors Série: Russie, August 2007, "France’s Russia Policy: Balancing Interests and Values", The Washington Quarterly, 2/2007; "La politique russe de la France : fin de cycle ?", Politique étrangère, 1/2007; and "RussianForeign Policy: Strange Inconsistency", UK MoD, CSRC, Russian Series 06/12 (E), March 2006.

Related Subjects

1. International Politics
2. Politics & International Relations
3. International Relations
4. Foreign Policy
5. Security Studies - Military & Strategic
6. Security Studies - Pol & Intl Relns
7. European Union Politics
8. Central Asian Studies
9. Regional Security
10. Russia -The Former Soviet Union & East European Studies
11. Russian & Soviet Politics
12. Transnationalism