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Briefing: Ukraine Gas Transit  PDF  (529 Kb)

In this edition specific focus has been given to issues relating to European Energy Security. Inside you will find an article from Marat Terterov on whether another gas crises is looming in Europe this Winter and an exclusive interview with Yuri Fedorov dealing with the problems Europe currently faces with regards energy security, it's relations with Russia and the Central Asia region.

  • Central European Journal of International and Security Studies  |  Published on EGF: 18.01.2010  |  Energy
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Security as an Interregional Concern: The EU and the Middle East  PDF  (688 Kb)

Bruges Regional Integration & Global Governance Papers

  • Helena Lindholm Schulz  |  Published on EGF: 15.01.2010  |  Security
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Russia’s Middle East Policy

  • Dr. Marat Terterov interview in Arabic on Russia Today  |  Published on EGF: 08.01.2010  |  External Relations
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Gas Forum 2010  PDF  (562 Kb)

Power industry, and especially sources of energy, are a key element ensuring economic development. As far as this sphere is concerned, Europe’s future will depend greatly on gas, and its crucial part will be the Central Europe.

  • EGF  |  Published on EGF: 08.01.2010  |  External Relations
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Turkey and Russia: stronger partners in regional energy security, business

How can an eight-hour prime ministerial visit possibly transform the basic tenets of the relationship between Turkey and Russia?

This is what happened during the short visit to Ankara on Aug. 6, 2009, by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

  • Mehmet Öğütçü & Danila Bochkarev  |  Published on EGF: 30.12.2009  |  Energy
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Stop the old “bridge” metaphor; Turkey has become a new regional “hub”

Prime Minister Erdogan’s upcoming visit to Washington, his host at the White House is likely to offer diplomatic niceties on Turkey’s role as a “bridge” between East and West.

Our argument is that this metaphor, however flattering it may have been in the past, no longer fits the reality of contemporary Turkey.

  • Mehmet Öğütçü and Jonathan Clarke  |  Published on EGF: 30.01.2010
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TURKMENISTAN: GAS UNDER PRESSURE  PDF  (201 Kb)

In October 2008, an audit by the British company Gaffney, Cline and Associates - GCA propelled Turkmenistan to the rank of the world’s second largest gas producer. This revelation confirmed the assertions of Saparmurad Niazov, the grotesque Turkmenbashy – Father of all the Turkmens – who, from 1985 until his death in December 2006, reigned over his country without sharing power. Less than a year later, two publications which appeared this past September, sow confusion among international energy experts and raise many questions. These two papers, one – an article written by Arkady Dubnov for the Russian newspaper Vremya Novosteï and the other – a report by the German NGO, the Eurasian Transition Group (ETG), - cast doubt on the estimations made public in October 2008.

Arkady Dubnov relies on information gleaned from Russian officials, while it is a Turkmen source behind the ETG pieced. In summation, they lead us to understand that the Turkmen authorities misled the managers of GCA by providing them with manipulated and falsified data. Disinformation or truth? At present, it is difficult to say. Nonetheless, one cannot really avoid wondering about a certain number of questions surrounding this polemic over resources, real or supposed, of Turkmenistan. This constitutes a new episode in the struggle in which the great powers are engaging for control and exploitation of the formidable energy resources of Central Asia.

  • Lieutenant Colonel  |  Published on EGF: 21.12.2009  |  Energy
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Question to Expert | Comment
North Caucasus Security OutlookMembers only

Russia during the Putin (and now Putin-Medvedev) years has, to a good degree, been successful in casting an image of increasing national wealth, external power and domestic stability...

  • EGF Editorial  |  Published on EGF: 18.12.2009  |  Security
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Russian Relations to the Gulf Region in a Changing Geopolitical Environment  PDF  (375 Kb)

Scholars of most academic disciplines across the social sciences have a fondness for comparing different regions in order to evaluate :

  • why one may be developing more rapidly than another,

  • why democracy may be stalled in one region or flourishing in another,

  • why the benefits foreseen by economic reform have proven less conclusive in some regions when compared to others...

  • Dr. Marat Terterov  |  Published on EGF: 15.01.2010  |  External Relations
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Eastern Caspian Sea Energy Geopolitics: A Litmus Test for the U.S. – Russia – China Struggle for the Geostrategic Control of Eurasia   PDF  (358 Kb)

  • Dr. Thrassy N. Marketos  |  Published on EGF: 21.02.2010  |  Energy
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