The transit dimension of EU energy security: Russian gas transit across Ukraine, Belarus, and Moldova

Provides an analysis of how EU transit security is affected by the governancestructures 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. INDICE: Introduction; 1: Defining Major Working Concepts of the Thesis: Energy Security, Gas Security, Transit, Gas Transit Security; 2: Theorising Transit Security: the Eurasian Gas Network, Power Relations and Network Governance; 3: Existing Multilateral and Bilateral Frameworks: the Lack of Overlapping Membership and its Implications for EU Gas Transit Security; 4: Gas Supply to Europe: the Role of Non-EU/Non-EEA Suppliers and the Increasing Importance of Transit; 5: EU Energy Policy-in-the-Making: Focus on External Transit Security;6: Russian-Ukrainian Gas Relations and Their Role for EU Gas Security: Looking for a Politically Acceptable Commercial Framework; 7: The Russian-BelarusianGas Relations: Balancing Geopolitics and Geo-economics; 8: The Russian-Moldovan Gas Relations: an Unstable Stability; 9: Building a Multilateral Framework for Secure Gas Transit: the Energy Charter Treaty and the (Draft) Transit Protocol; Conclusion

• ISBN: 978-0-19-959922-6
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 316
• Fecha Publicación: 01/04/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés