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Energy Dependency, Politics and Corruption in the Former Soviet Union

Russia's Power, Oligarchs' Profits and Ukraine's Missing Energy Policy, 1995-2006

By: Margarita M. Balmaceda

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Energy Dependency, Politics and Corruption in the Former Soviet Union

Russia's Power, Oligarchs' Profits and Ukraine's Missing Energy Policy, 1995-2006

By: Margarita M. Balmaceda

Written by an acknowledged expert in the area, this book investigates how Russia has manipulated the energy dependency of its neighbours on Russian energy supplies to achieve its foreign policy goals, focusing in particular on relations with the Ukraine.

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Routledge

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1134072708

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Russian Energy Chains

The Remaking of Technopolitics from Siberia to Ukraine to the European Union

By: Margarita M. Balmaceda

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Russian Energy Chains

The Remaking of Technopolitics from Siberia to Ukraine to the European Union

By: Margarita M. Balmaceda

Russia’s use of its vast energy resources for leverage against post-Soviet states such as Ukraine is widely recognized as a threat. Yet we cannot understand this danger without also understanding the opportunity that Russian energy represents. From corruption-related profits to transportation-fee income to subsidized prices, many within these states have benefited by participating in Russian energy exports. To understand Russian energy power in the region, it is necessary to look at the entire value chain—including production, processing, transportation, and marketing—and at the full spectrum of domestic and external actors involved, from Gazprom to regional oligarchs to European Union regulators. This book follows Russia’s three largest fossil-fuel exports—natural gas, oil, and coal—from production in Siberia through transportation via Ukraine to final use in Germany in order to understand the tension between energy as threat and as opportunity. Margarita M. Balmaceda reveals how this dynamic has been a key driver of political development in post-Soviet states in the period between independence in 1991 and Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014. She analyzes how the physical characteristics of different types of energy, by shaping how they can be transported, distributed, and even stolen, affect how each is used—not only technically but also politically. Both a geopolitical travelogue of the journey of three fossil fuels across continents and an incisive analysis of technology’s role in fossil-fuel politics and economics, this book offers new ways of thinking about energy in Eurasia and beyond.

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Columbia University Press

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023155219X

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9780231552196

Living the High Life in Minsk

Russian Energy Rents, Domestic Populism and Belarus' Impending Crisis

By: Margarita M. Balmaceda

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Living the High Life in Minsk

Russian Energy Rents, Domestic Populism and Belarus' Impending Crisis

By: Margarita M. Balmaceda

Living the High Life in Minsk looks at the sources of stability and instability in post-Soviet authoritarian states through the case study of President Lukashenka’s firm hold on power in Belarus. In particular, it seeks to understand the role of energy relations, policies, and discourses in the maintenance of this power. The central empirical question Balmaceda seeks to answer is what has been the role of energy policies in the maintenance of Lukashenka’s power in Belarus? In particular, it analyzes the role of energy policies in the management of Lukashenka’s relationship with three constituencies crucial to his hold on power: Russian actors, the Belarusian nomenklatura, and the Belarusian electorate. In terms of foreign relations, the book focuses on the factors explaining Lukashenka’s ability to project Belarus’ power in its relationship with Russia in such a way as to compensate for its objective high level of dependency, assuring high levels of energy subsidies and rents continuing well beyond the initial worsening of the relationship in c. 2004. In terms of domestic relations, Balmaceda examines Lukashenka’s specific use of those energy rents in such a way as to assure the continuing support of both the Belarusian nomenklatura and the Belarusian electorate.

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Central European University Press

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9633862221

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9789633862223

Politics of Energy Dependency

Ukraine, Belarus, and Lithuania between Domestic Oligarchs and Russian Pressure

By: Margarita M. Balmaceda

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Politics of Energy Dependency

Ukraine, Belarus, and Lithuania between Domestic Oligarchs and Russian Pressure

By: Margarita M. Balmaceda

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 untapped local-language sources, Margarita M. Balmaceda reveals a complex picture of local elites dealing with the complications of energy dependency and, in the process, affecting the energy security of Europe as a whole. A must-read for anyone interested in Eastern Europe, Russia, and the politics of natural resources, this book reveals the insights gained by looking at post-Soviet development and international relations issues not only from a Moscow-centered perspective, but from that of individual actors in other states.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442667141

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Belarus: Oil, Gas, Transit Pipelines and Russian Foreign Energy Policy

By: Margarita M. Balmaceda

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Belarus: Oil, Gas, Transit Pipelines and Russian Foreign Energy Policy

By: Margarita M. Balmaceda

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.

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GMB Publishing Ltd

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1905050836

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The Politics of Energy Dependency

Ukraine, Belarus, and Lithuania Between Domestic Oligarchs and Russian Pressure

By: Margarita Mercedes Balmaceda

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The Politics of Energy Dependency

Ukraine, Belarus, and Lithuania Between Domestic Oligarchs and Russian Pressure

By: Margarita Mercedes Balmaceda

The Politics of Energy Dependency explores why these states were unable to move towards energy diversification. Through extensive field research using previously untapped local-language sources, Margarita M. Balmaceda reveals a complex picture of local elites dealing with the complications of energy dependency and, in the process, affecting the energy security of Europe as a whole.

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Living the High Life in Minsk

Russian Energy Rents, Domestic Populism and Belarus' Impending Crisis

By: Margarita M. Balmaceda

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Living the High Life in Minsk

Russian Energy Rents, Domestic Populism and Belarus' Impending Crisis

By: Margarita M. Balmaceda

Looks at the sources of stability and instability in post-Soviet authoritarian states through the case study of President Lukashenka?s firm hold on power in Belarus. In particular, it seeks to understand the role of energy relations, policies, and discourses in the maintenance of this power. The central empirical question Balmaceda seeks to answer is what has been the role of energy policies in the maintenance of Lukashenka?s power in Belarus? In particular, it analyzes the role of energy policies in the management of Lukashenka?s relationship with three constituencies crucial to his hold on power: Russian actors, the Belarusian nomenklatura, and the Belarusian electorate. In terms of foreign relations, the book focuses on the factors explaining Lukashenka?s ability to project Belarus? power in its relationship with Russia in such a way as to compensate for its objective high level of dependency, assuring high levels of energy subsidies and rents continuing well beyond the initial worsening of the relationship in c. 2004. In terms of domestic relations, Balmaceda examines Lukashenka?s specific use of those energy rents in such a way as to assure the continuing support of both the Belarusian nomenklatura and the Belarusian electorate.

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Central European University Press

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6155225192

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Book's by Margarita M. Balmaceda

Energy Dependency, Politics and Corruption in the Former Soviet Union

Energy Dependency, Politics and Corruption in the Former Soviet Union

Russian Energy Chains

Russian Energy Chains

Living the High Life in Minsk

Living the High Life in Minsk

Politics of Energy Dependency

Politics of Energy Dependency

Belarus: Oil, Gas, Transit Pipelines and Russian Foreign Energy Policy

Belarus: Oil, Gas, Transit Pipelines and Russian Foreign Energy Policy

The Politics of Energy Dependency

The Politics of Energy Dependency

Living the High Life in Minsk

Living the High Life in Minsk

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