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A Trilateral Gas Union: Risks and Benefits for Central Asia? (with Nodira Mukhammadkulova)
The Diplomat. 2023.
The article analyzes the Trilateral Gas Union proposal and its benefits for Russia and Central Asia.
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Strokan M., Sil R., , in: Russian Politics Today: Stability and Fragility.: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026. P. 186–208.
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Yenikeyeff S., Инь Ч., Евразийские исследования 2024 № 2 С. 17–36
The article analyzes the factors that have influenced the development of the energy policies of the Russian Federation and China in Central Asia over the past de cade. The study provides an analysis of the distinctive features of Moscow and Beijing's energy strategies in the region and examines the impact of these policies on bilateral ...
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Strokan M., The Diplomat 2023
The article analyzes the prospects of oil supply to the EU from Kazakhstan via Druzhba pipeline. ...
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Strokan M., Asian Affairs 2023 Vol. 54 No. 3 P. 498–526
In November 2022, the government of the Russian Federation proposed the creation of a “Trilateral Gas Union” with Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. Commentators were quick to focus on the Central Asian dimensions of the proposal, in particular the potential expansion of Russian influence in the region or Russia’s attempts to substitute exports to the region for ...
Added: September 9, 2024
Yenikeyeff S., Economía exterior 2008 No. 46 P. 47–59
The military conflict between Georgia and Russia over South Ossetia is likely to have a major impact on the export routes for hydrocarbons from the Caspian and Central Asia ...
Added: October 13, 2022
Yenikeyeff S., Oxford: Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, 2007.
The recent Russian expedition to the North Pole has highlighted the growing strategic importance of the Arctic. This comment, by Shamil Midkhatovich Yenikeyeff and Timothy Fenton Krysiek, examines the Arctic’s potential as a new hydrocarbon producing region, analyzes the Kremlin’s regional development strategy, and explains the response of the other circumpolar countries the United States, ...
Added: October 13, 2022
Yenikeyeff S., Foreign Affairs 2015
As NATO, a guarantor of stability, retreats west, Central Asian states have become increasingly vulnerable to external and internal pressures. China and Russia see this as an opportunity to play chess in a sophisticated game to win influence in Central Asia ...
Added: September 20, 2022
The International Spectator 2022 P. 1–18
Situated at the crossroads of the Silk Road, Central Asia is included in the region described by Halford Mackinder as the Heartland of the Eurasian continent and has been an arena of international competition for centuries. Today, a “New Great Game” appears to be taking place between Russia, China, and, to a lesser extent, the ...
Added: October 13, 2021
Kuteleva A., , in: China's Energy Security and Relations with Petrostates: Oil as an Idea.: Routledge, 2021. P. 96–138.
Kazakhstan, the second-biggest oil-exporter in the former Soviet space behind Russia, is China’s key energy partner in Central Asia. Even though energy relations between China and Kazakhstan have so far been mutually beneficial and corresponded to the interests of both states, China’s expansion in Kazakhstan’s oil sector promotes a Sinophobic backlash and increasing neocolonial concerns ...
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Kuteleva A., , in: China's Energy Security and Relations with Petrostates: Oil as an Idea.: Routledge, 2021. P. 61–95.
This chapter explains how and with what effect China’s and Russia’s energy paradigms are manifested and enacted in their bilateral energy relations. The demand for and of imports of oil on China’s part has been rising steadily since the mid-1990s, yet Russia hesitated to enter long-term agreements with China until the end of the 2000s. ...
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Kuteleva A., , in: China's Energy Security and Relations with Petrostates: Oil as an Idea.: Routledge, 2021. P. 24–60.
How does modern China define and communicate its identity in international energy relations, and how does China make its energy choices? This is the central question that this chapter addresses. It starts with China’s quest for “self-reliance” in the 1950s and the story of the Daqing oilfield. Further, it discusses the legacy of “self-reliance” and ...
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Kuteleva A., , in: China's Energy Security and Relations with Petrostates: Oil as an Idea.: Routledge, 2021. Ch. 2 P. 8–23.
This chapter critically reviews the major theoretical debates that provide the basis for the study of energy politics in the realm of International Relations (IR). It identifies a number of blindspots in the existing mainstream realist and liberal scholarship on energy politics. This scholarship is heavily preoccupied with the dichotomy of conflict and cooperation and ...
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Kuteleva A., Routledge, 2021.
This book examines the development of bilateral energy relations between China and the two oil-rich countries, Kazakhstan and Russia.
Challenging conventional assumptions about energy politics and China’s global quest for oil, this book examines the interplay of politics and sociocultural contexts. It shows how energy resources become ideas and how these ideas are mobilized in the ...
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Kuteleva A., Leifso J., Energy Research and Social Science 2020 Vol. 70 Article 101672
Canadian politics is alive with references to what oil means to the country and its residents. However, the existing research only intermittently and often superficially discusses how Canada recognizes itself as a petrostate and negotiates its identities in relation to oil. Seeking to fill the gap, this paper offers a nuanced, dynamic, and comprehensive picture ...
Added: July 6, 2020
Kuteleva A., The China Quarterly 2016 Vol. 227 P. 828–829
The extreme transformation from energy self-sufficient to energy dependent development that China has experienced over the past three decades has received substantial international attention. China’s global search for energy resources has become a particularly sensitive issue in Sino-American relations. While, in general, China’s rapid and powerful rise is triggering complex responses in the US, ranging from admiration and support to ...
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Kuteleva A., Problems of Post-Communism 2020 Vol. 67 No. 1 P. 78–92
Vladimir Putin’s regime has struggled to restore Russia’s great power status. The discourses that have emerged around Russian energy wealth play a particularly significant role in this struggle and shape Russia’s identity in international relations. These multiple and contradictory understandings of energy resources are encapsulated in the two dominant discourses: the energy superpower and the ...
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Барнаул: Азбука, 2010.
В сборнике опубликованы материалы II международной научной конференции «Международные отношения в Центральной Азии: история и современность», посвященной памяти отечественного востоковеда, профессора В.А. Моисеева. Сборник знакомит читателей с актуальными вопросами международных отношений в Центральной Азии и на Дальнем Востоке, этнографии, истории и культуры народов Сибири и государств Дальнего Востока, социально-экономических и политических процессов в государствах Центральной ...
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Likhacheva A., Вестник международных организаций: образование, наука, новая экономика 2014 Т. 9 № 3 С. 47–67
In Central Asia, the water deficit and water-energy problem have been one of the most acute and conflict-ridden challenges for the sustainable development of the region and for regional security. Key trade and investment partners, including Russia and the European Union, could play a considerable role in influencing this issue, due to the long-lasting status ...
Added: December 5, 2013