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Politics of Energy Dependency: Ukraine, Belarus, and Lithuania between Domestic Oligarchs and Russian Pressure
Margarita M. Balmaceda
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Energy has been an important element in Moscow's quest to exert power and influence in its surrounding areas both before and after the collapse of the USSR. With their political independence in 1991, Ukraine, Belarus, and Lithuania also became, virtually overnight, separate energy-poor entities heavily dependent on Russia. This increasingly costly dependency - and elites' scrambling over associated profits - came to crucially affect not only relations with Russia, but the very nature of post-independence state building. The Politics of Energy Dependency explores why these states were unable to move towards energy diversification. Through extensive field research using previously ... Read more
Energy has been an important element in Moscow's quest to exert power and influence in its surrounding areas both before and after the collapse of the USSR. With their political independence in 1991, Ukraine, Belarus, and Lithuania also became, virtually overnight, separate energy-poor entities heavily dependent on Russia. This increasingly costly dependency - and elites' scrambling over associated profits - came to crucially affect not only relations with Russia, but the very nature of post-independence state building. The Politics of Energy Dependency explores why these states were unable to move towards energy diversification. Through extensive field research using previously ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
705g
Number of Pages
464
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781487520229
SKU
V9781487520229
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About Margarita M. Balmaceda
Margarita M. Balmaceda is professor of Diplomacy and International Relations at Seton Hall University, and a research associate at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University.
Reviews for Politics of Energy Dependency: Ukraine, Belarus, and Lithuania between Domestic Oligarchs and Russian Pressure
A tour de force analysis ... rich in data and clear in exposition, with more than sufficient detail to educate specialists and to interest generalists concerned with European and world affairs.
Walter C. Clemens, Jr. Journal of Baltic Studies The definitive account of Russia's energy trade with its western neighbours ... Summing Up: Essential.
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Walter C. Clemens, Jr. Journal of Baltic Studies The definitive account of Russia's energy trade with its western neighbours ... Summing Up: Essential.
P.Rutland ... Read more